JimofPennsylvan
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About the occurrences in Charlottesville, Virginia over the past two days people are focusing on President Trump's connection to this matter but what the American people should be focusing on is what an unbelievable failure by authorities in that community, specifically the Mayor, Police Commissioner and Governor of the State of Virginia they should all apologize for their failure to do their duty in the strongest possible terms. This writer is from the Philadelphia region and there is not one trillionth of a chance that Philadelphia authorities would have allowed what took place in Charlottesville to happen in Philadelphia. In Charlottesville many protesters had shields and clubs once police saw that they should have called off the protests, the protests were in fist fights they were throwing things and this happened for a long time as soon as this violent behavior began police should have been arresting and carting such actors away. The white supremacist and the anti-white supremacist should have been required to have permits to protests and their protest route and area should have been clearly delineated and separated so that each group had no chance to engage in physical confrontation with the other. National associations for police commissioners, Mayors and Governors should emphatically call out these Charlottesville authorities for their failure to do their job. One could speculate that maybe these officials wanted civil unrest in this community to spotlight the wrongfullness of white supremacy in America and some of the actions of President Trump who in his behavior does a lot of unorthodox things that members of this group like, let me be clear I am not saying President Trump is a supporter of White Supremacy in fact I believe he is fully opposed to White supremacy values. What is appropriate to say though is that it would be disgraceful and shameful beyond words if Virginian officials allowed this cauldron of violence to brew for political reasons this cauldron that ultimately led to the death of one person and serious bodily injury to many others!
President Trump's response to this Charlottesville event has received some criticism; I think the problem that President Trump has which leads to his muddled response to events like these is that he doesn't distinguish hate. These white supremacist with their white superiority values are embracing hate that is indefensible morally, ethically and legally. People that hate President Trump hate him because of his character, track record and his policies and that is moral, ethical and legal with at least one caveat members of Congress who have made a commitment to deny President Trump any significant legislative achievement are egregiously violating their duty to their constituents the duty being to significantly improve their constituents' interests if they're able and it is good to do so especially especially in these really really difficult times for people. This error by President Trump comes from one of his many character flaws which makes him unfit tp be President the one being his inability to fully and fairly self-criticize himself so he avoids making the same mistake again and can make prudent course corrections. If President Trump utilized this trait he would understand and accept and not be so put off by the fact that a lot of Americans hate him and will for the entire balance of his Presidency, being responsible means accepting responsibility for your actions President Trump!
President Trump's response to this Charlottesville event has received some criticism; I think the problem that President Trump has which leads to his muddled response to events like these is that he doesn't distinguish hate. These white supremacist with their white superiority values are embracing hate that is indefensible morally, ethically and legally. People that hate President Trump hate him because of his character, track record and his policies and that is moral, ethical and legal with at least one caveat members of Congress who have made a commitment to deny President Trump any significant legislative achievement are egregiously violating their duty to their constituents the duty being to significantly improve their constituents' interests if they're able and it is good to do so especially especially in these really really difficult times for people. This error by President Trump comes from one of his many character flaws which makes him unfit tp be President the one being his inability to fully and fairly self-criticize himself so he avoids making the same mistake again and can make prudent course corrections. If President Trump utilized this trait he would understand and accept and not be so put off by the fact that a lot of Americans hate him and will for the entire balance of his Presidency, being responsible means accepting responsibility for your actions President Trump!