I made the mistake of playing a video of a congressional hearing with the volume on and had to shut it off because my children were in the room. The language was too foul. I’d be beyond ashamed to have children that repeated anything like that. And it was congress!
I had no idea that telling someone they talked like a congressman would be such a great insult in comparison to “you cuss like a sailor”.
While I’m in favor of free speech, I’m also in favor of having standards. When did we stop holding the expectation that the people we elect act professionally? Or at least in a way that wouldn’t have to be bleeped out on public television?
When did it get so bad? (And have I been living under a rock? Young children, so possibly)
So the local question that naturally follows: what do you do when in a public forum when the language is foul, when people are belligerent and shouting? How do we the people hold the expectation that discourse in our society should be polite?
There must be an option between being a people that live by the dueling code and a being a collection of doormats?
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