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‘Who cares?’ a dangerous answer

Does “who cares what you think” express our country’s value or a way forward?

I ask this because it has become more and more common in our country’s political dialogue on a national and local level to respond to people or groups with different ideas, beliefs, or cultural and political beliefs by treating these things with the response “who cares” or labeling them as “the enemy.” It seems to me the idea is to make anybody who disagrees or is different in a way you are not comfortable with valueless, worthless, irrelevant or invisible.

Does one ideology have all the answers (Republican doctrine is a broad ideology)? The obvious answer is “no.” Allowing a broad range of differing ideas and perspectives is critical to a solid solution, and progress. The condition for ideas is that the ideas must have a basis in fact and respect all people and parties that are trying to put forth positive suggestions. I do not believe we, along with other counties, want to repeat our history of scapegoating and the decision to ignore factual reality such as happened during slavery, the Japanese internment in this country, Nazi Germany and, most recently gay, Mexican, and Muslim bashing.

The expression “who cares” seems to me to be an expression of ignorance but also a road to corruption, anger, stagnation and violence shown in the past pedophilia in the priesthood, deaths and extreme violence toward the civil rights movement, and violence and deprivation toward gay Americans.

Let us care.

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