Divide and conquer

Well said and about time.

Well written, Cory. The beauty of Mr. Murray’s writing is that because his columns drip with hypocrisy, a response is easily crafted in less than 5 minutes. Whenever his columns appear, divisiveness is on the table, but that’s okay, that’s just Rudy’s shtick. Fortunately, there’s nothing in Rudy’s columns that would change any minds until he changes his writing style and approach.

I agree with the "most people" comments you included in your LTE but there is a very vocal minority of Americans who, through manipulation, intimidation, and yes, better organizing at times than the majority, get their way despite most people disagreeing with them. Your comment about 5 year olds and gender reveal your own bias. Banning a book like "Everywhere Babies," which Florida and Texas have done, is extremist and language like yours encourages that extremism. I also think it is disingenuous when you claim that "most people" would support some level of abortion rights when, in fact, the most ardent abortion opponents insist that not only does life begin at conception but those same extremists, once they achieve an at-conception abortion ban, will next work to ban contraceptives.

Actually in my book the issue at hand stats around the time of the Johnson administration when the voting rights act was signed. I know it's acnient history but I'm 78 so I do remember. The disaffected Democrats from the Southern states left enmasse. The Republican party gladly scooped them up with promises of a willingness to cater to their hatreds. So it began. On through the Clinton and Obama years where "we need to make them fail" took post position over good governance for the nation. Fox news and others made a fortune on hate and resentment. On the the best phrase in the letter. That being "what kind of sick culture ......" That says it all right there. After catering to unbridled hatred we now reap what we have sown. Hopefully our good natured but bumbling president will start us back towards some semblance of the reasonable place we were in before the hate filled years of the last treacherous and unbalanced individual we've endured the previous four years along with the cult he's created.