An after the civil war he said the United States is because in the end its very in its a very interesting discourse of difference because when we look at it as a collective of states making a country and now after the civil war we look at it is unified here and it seems to me were. Digressing back because its the United States are now because of all of the divisions that we have and we have this mantra of blues daves red states and as i said in my introduction theres a lot of hostility to it to people that you deem as your opponent how do you reflect upon that well im glad that you brought up the civil war because as we talk about how polarized things are and how much we point to people as the enemy i think thats important Historical Context break up when people talk about this being unprecedented its not really any in this country didnt fact have a civil war or. 117 years ago which in the grand scheme of history is not that long of a period of time so i think that period is really instructive and the semantic difference that you brought out between seeing is in our unfortunately weve seen throughout history i was a history major in college so i love. I love history and i like to learn from history and irish perhaps one of our citizens felt the same way but when you when you look at that is how were going back to it we can wane throughout periods of history in terms of whether we go through these periods that are more partisan or less partisan and i think that this is kind of a natural progression of just building up lots of things that have happened since the civil war so i think that its unfortunate and i think its something that i wish perhaps maybe more people were paying attention to this is a topic that comes up repeatedly is that somebody who holds an opposing view from you doesnt necessarily have to be your moral enemy but as part of that weve seen civil discourse has been waning when i you know i just referenced that throughout history we see some of these concepts wax and wane thats when its waning and its another thing that i think that people need to pay more attention to you know just because you hold a particular belief doesnt necessarily make it a universal truth and we can as much as some people dont want to admit it we can learn from people who hold those absolutely and thats a thats my experience in media is i learn more from people that i disagree with and it sharpens my wit and my argument and i think it does for them as well you know this kind of thing with this kind of discourse a problem that we have in our our discourse because. You know obviously during a campaign its very boisterous and people likes of. Hyperbole and they and they have this tendency of using superlatives but you know i get really bothers me when what i hear. Or you know youre a bolshevik youre a communist youre a fascist you know that but those are hard words to take back ok and and i and i really worry about them and in boltons has been doing is that people have theres a lot of bitterness across the country and its and its not one single party i think i really lament that we could we cant just come together and say we we have a lot of bitterness and maybe we can use that anger in that presentation to actually open be honest and look at your opponent in an honest way and say i understand why youre frustrated can you understand why im frustrated thats the part of the conversation that is not happening in american politics go ahead of it i would have to agree with you but i also think that we are in a very different mind frame in america much fewer hes late he seen this and absent lows over the year so i am always cautious of to say that now weve seen the most vitriolic or the most artists and divided this country because its absolutely not correct but in the admin and he being social media and this might that might actually like lend itself because the or you know they were generations past we solved really extreme. Partisanship but today i think that you know the cable news the cable news cycle the 24 sevenths news cycle has helped to bolster this because the more outrage the war insidious the late wage the more aggressive the more you know click share and viewership these networks get so i think there is something that comes out of that see your point about bolsheviks and communists and that the name calling that we see throughout campaigns i think that part of that is done largely because the tour American Public doesnt really have a concise idea of what those terms need so if they can give a good maybe to their negative if you were to ask people what the tenets of communism or what the bolsheviks where you were just do man on the street right now across america were not going to find too many people who fully understand those terms i think that what we see now is a group of people almost. Right but i will play on the republicans here a president who tweets these the right way and Strong Language all the time in a way that we havent necessarily seen come from president s or participate Party Politics weve seen time and time again there is typically a structure for the presidency that we have seen take it for or turn away from and i think thats also shaping the nation when it comes to how flowing people are with this type of like yeah but you know i didnt know i didnt dig agree with you but you know i thought that you know if youre so if you have such a disparaging view about rhetoric why does the left participate in it on steroids ok its not helping it its making it worse rory you know im glad i brought up the civil war because the civil war was an existential threat to that country ok and we have both a political language now that talks about and sends them to the brits you know that the civil war happened for a reason and civil breakdown may happen in the u. S. Or reasoning or watching it with their own eyes the problem is that both sides see the other is an existential threat its not like when we end with it then thats a tradition in american politics we all can win somehow but what im going to situation is that no i mean if you lose i win and you were bank with your play and a lot of republicans very few very threatened by some of the ideas that are coming out of on the left not particularly from the by name went on in the Democratic Party and in elements of the progressive wing of the party which actually personally i like nothing to progressive because ive learned more really speak to this existential threat threat fear so i think that this ties in with the comment that he said just made about how cable news and social media are driving a lot of the said think in the past when race had these periods of division we had more access to direct conversations with people that we can learn from like you were just referencing and now its much easier to fire. Yourself in an echo chamber and i recently watched a documentary on netflix the social dilemma which talked about how basically people are shown content based on what they view that pushes them further intruder down at a particular rabbit hole on certain concepts and rather than saying you know you watch this now for an opposing view on actually watch this its just it hardens viewpoints and i dont think that thats helpful so i certainly think that theres a greater conversation about this existential threat that has to do with both our cable news using habits and our social media habits and people arent directly communicating the way they think they have in previous generations i think thats a big part of it and we hear the phrase keyboard warriors a lot when you talk about these neutrality conversations that youve been referencing or we view other people as the enemy so much of those conversations take place behind a screen a lot of those conversations probably would not take place if you were sitting face to face with someone and asking them questions about their their particular viewpoints now of course we have seen some unfortunate events in person as well that have stemmed from east social media interactions with some of the protests and things of various nature that weve had recently so thats something that i think we need to get a handle on but again i think when you talk about this existential threat we cant talk about that in a vacuum we have to talk about the role that media and social media in particular plays in furthering those divide its you know a mission when it went to a lot of conservatives and members of the g o p are very critical of the liberal media and they can busy. Over the protests because you know there are look theres a lot of misery associated theres a lot of misery associated with the lockdowns all across the country but protests the bears a certain political advantage been there allowed to happen but other people are or are ashamed in public. Over social distancing and all but how do you address that because as a conservative here you know thats a policy i mean you have a lock down for Health Reasons you dont make exceptions because those exceptions are against. The the better. Health of the of the community here i mean how do you address them well 1st and foremost i think that you know its important to all of the guidelines in her round checking ourselves coronavirus i will say that when conservatives throw up protests that africanamericans and supporters of that kind of americans who are out here in the streets protesting for their civil rights and Civil Liberties specifically the right to not be chilled bottle leave without having any level of alarm on you i think that that is a very important. If you forgive me and when youre done youre saying you have to suspend those rules and that about social welfare i mean that you know making that exception there if you make an exception for political reasons not for Health Reasons and i think that theres a lot of people that have a good reason to complain about now people complain about whatever they want i think youre twisting my words here what im saying is that the route history may have seen minority rights be trampled on now if they are at war all these officers who decided not to shoot unarmed black native women outside of coronavirus and then yes the protests wouldnt happen during coronavirus but we see video after video and i think that it would be disingenuous for these africanamericans people who look like me not take the streets not to get that edge in the Election Year what this is one of the things that people are voting on were talking about Police Reports you cannot take that anyone has nothing to do with science right it has everything to do with the health risks that are associated with just being an africanamerican. Its all politics its politics it is not every day like i cant make up my black eyes so that wasnt you having if you were an africanamerican being pulled over by the cops are very hot they are sick theyre going. Up will exhaust. Like i or. Not what im saying is that africanamericans have been at risk in this country or generations and have always stood up and protested this is not. You know you suspend science or politics thats what youre saying to me you know what im saying is that white people are respected around the virus we already know that those levels are extremely high what im saying is that black people are also it risk when it comes to their interactions with Police Officers those are 2 risk that happens here right now be happening at the exact same time i dont think that one is more detrimental than the other i think that there are africanamericans who have been im always on the street generation and quite frankly we have a lot to tell me about how many there are going to be armed black men were killed last year in america by police and start how many armed black men were killed by its not just on our black men its also told us you know you have to go to work hard break. Well continue our discussion of you know im going to be 98 with our city. Was a pandemic no certainly no borders im just delighted to nationalities. Has emerged that would be we dont look like she. Needs to be. Judged as coming every crisis so. We can do better we should be. Everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been so many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. By social class. People say by 1st. If youre born into a poor family if youre born into a minority family if youre born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances are people that i dont have a stiff. Warning to generational poverty. By every day new rule your needs and the needs of your family. Welcome back to crossfire where all things are considered im curious about remind you were discussing a divided america. Ok lets go back to rory and dayton here but lets talk about this fear element in the election ok weve talked about the dependent make here. How does this undermine the legitimacy legitimacy in the faith in the political process here and we can throw in a new support go Supreme Court justice as well into the mix year i mean do you think both parties in the media are playing upon fear for political advantage because it seems quite obvious to me. I think that both parties have long played on peoples fear of what its all advantage i mean if you watch what it all adds you know going back 4050 years we see the same thing when there was a similar social unrest in the sixtys i mean nixons law and Order Campaign was all about preying on peoples fears and so thats not a new dynamic and i think that with regards to what were seeing right now we certainly see that law and order element obviously theres a. A touch of irony in some of that being seen on the right but there is on the left as well about their sphere about if donald trump is given another 4 years as president what are we going to see in this country so i think yes we are seeing people who have legitimate fears on both sides but again both parties have exploited fear i dont necessarily think one party has the moral high ground on this issue of exploiting fear so it would be great if people were more and using their own Critical Thinking as opposed to just succumbing to these fears but fear is a powerful motivator and always has been and if it didnt work i dont think wed see people on both sides continuing to use it in their political ads and into funding the police desire to create fear in your mind for citizens well i think that thats definitely something that president s from the Republican Party are hoping for but weve heard a certain segment of the protest but not all protesters that definitely not the black lives matter never large is a on the Police Statement what i know and what has been researched about even the police is that if they movement that has been going on since that day they were out lots of what we saw with the war on drugs what we saw with the war on terror and even the police doesnt mean what republicans are going around telling people it does the public and it even goes on as long meant making sure that the budgets of state and local governments goal towards helping those who are most often interact with by the police so whether that is the Homeless Population or those in need actors who programs those who need mental help assistance it means moving some monies away and funding things that actually will help these individuals rather than excessive policing because what we do know is that there are Police Across this country my father is a Police Officer there are Police Officers across this country who are doing things outside of their job they are being called to take care have to help cases theyre not Mental Health professionals theyre being called to take care of homeless situations they are not in the in the be made up taking care of them thats not what. They are trained to do so when you have officers who are doing war often times things that have nothing to do with criminality at all and theyre not trained to theyre not specialized in it all that doesnt cause further problems what we also know is that state and local budgets are not meaning that as much as weve seen there be extra bloat. In how much Police Officers monopolys officers who think in their budgets that means that youre automatically cutting Something Else the 1st thing to get cut are afterschool programs Mental HealthCenters Clinics for the poor and homeless shelters and programs like that what were seeing and what theyre saying with the police is not the same as eradicating Police Funding what it needs what weve seen in context is that just 10 percent of Police Funding going towards homelessness going towards Mental Health going towards afterschool programs can solve and reduce a lot of the crime that we do see as our communities across the country thats what theyre asking here were but you know we have the case of minneapolis where they actually did to fund the police and crime so are ok and then you had members of the public complaining to their elected officials that crime is soaring where are the police and this is what you have a lot of what we just heard from i mean i agree with a lot of been here i think the police are asked to do things that theyre not theyre not equipped to do theyre not educated to do i agree with that completely here but you know theyre part of the the the rhetoric of defund the police is the is that the police are the enemy which i dont have any tolerance for there is there i dont know the number of Police Officers that have died this year but its up very very high because of all of these protests and violence here so. Quick to speak to that out there i mean this is a political culture from the police and i think i mean she gave us a very very nuanced explanation what it is but thats not how its being used in this campaign or well theres certainly an element of irony with what we saw in minneapolis in terms of how this issue was approached and im glad that you just used the word nuance to describe the mistress. Because that was actually