I watched your video of the Republican Senate debate.
Our country has a horrendous political divide.
The divide has grown worse during the Trump presidency.
The divide has engendered great animosity between the two sides.
In the divide, the leaders of the two sides express absolute opposed judgments about Trump, and they talk only about things supporting their side's Trump judgment and will not acknowledge things that are counter to their Trump judgement. The followers of the two sides follow this and do the same thing
I believe the two sides acting in the forgoing way make it impossible to bridge the divide and make it impossible to reduce the animosity between the two sides.
I believe the leaders of the two sides know they mislead their followers in purveying their absolute opposed judgments about Trump and by not acknowledging things that are counter to their side's Trump judgement. I believe the leaders also know that this prevents bridging of the divide and this increases the animosity between the two sides.
Regarding the Mueller investigation, the leaders on Trump's side say the Mueller investigation was a hoax, and the leaders of the Dem side say the investigation was not a hoax and the investigation showed Trump and his campaign solicited and took advantage of Russian interference in the 2016 election to help Trump and Trump obstructed justice by obstructing the investigation. The absolute judgments the leaders purvey to their followers mislead their followers, exacerbate the divide, and engender more animosity between the two sides.
The same goes for the impeachment. The Dem leaders charged Trump with abuse of power and putting his personal political interest ahead of national security and electoral interests. The leaders on Trump's side charged that the impeachment was a sham and that the House Dems abused the impeachment power. Again, the absolute judgments the leaders purvey to their followers mislead their followers, exacerbate the divide, and engender more animosity between the two sides.
The country is horrendously seized by the divide and by the animosity.
Some may think that the 2020 elections will lead to lessening the divide and the animosity.
I don't agree, and I think country's horrendous political divide and animosity will continue and grow after the 2020 election.
That is pessimistic.
The divide and the animosity are sufficiently detrimental to our country's governance that I think your TV station and reporters should evaluate what you think.
If you are optimistic, you should be able to explain to yourselves why you are optimistic, and I think you owe it to your viewers to do a TV news editorial expressing that. If you don't do such an editorial, I will assume you share my pessimism.
If you are pessimistic as I am, it would seem incumbent on you to ask yourselves whether, in your positions, you can do anything to lessen the divide and the animosity.
Because I think a main contributing cause of the divide and the animosity is the leaders of the two sides misleading their followers, one thing that will help the country is for the leaders of the two sides to be forced to acknowledge to their followers that the leaders have been misleading their followers and to express to their followers that the absolute opposed judgments about Trump that have been conveyed to them are inaccurate.
If you agree with the foregoing, the forcing will not be easy.
The forcing may need to be in the form of notifying leaders of the two sides in Alabama of the foregoing analysis of the problem and to demand that certain questions be answered.
If no answers are provided, the next step would be to undertake a series of dedicated minutes on your news show in which you lay out the divide and animosity between the two sides, the contribution that the absolute opposed judgments about Trump make to the divide and animosity, that such and such questions have been submitted, no responses were given, and your viewers are being informed about this to shame the leaders into answering.
Let me conclude this letter by giving an example of a fundamental, critical question that I believe Rep. Gary Palmer will not answer, to wit, "Do you believe the POTUS has an obligation to tell the truth to the American people?"
I think it is the case that the Matt Murphy show was not willing to ask the foregoing question of Gary Palmer, and Gary Palmer will not answer the question.Pending your inviting me on your show to discuss Trump, impeachment, and Palmer's support of Trump, there are some easy hard questions you can ask Palmer.— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) October 25, 2019
Easy hard question #1: Does Palmer believe the POTUS has an obligation to tell the truth to the American people? #alpolitics
Thank you.
Edit 2/29/2020
See also the following blog entries:
Appeal to AL news directors, October 1, 2019
AL Project Veritas - Impeachment, October 6, 2019
And also
Dear Aunie, May 9, 2020 (added to this list 7/8/20)
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