Let Us Speak in ONE Voice: tyranny of the majority?
President-elect Trump's Thanksgiving video calls for the nation to unite to Make America Great.
Full speech transcript
We are very blessed to call this nation our home. And that is what America is: it is our home. It’s where we raise our families, care for our loved ones, look out for our neighbors, and live out our dreams.
It is my prayer, that on this Thanksgiving, we begin to heal our divisions and move forward as one country, strengthened by a shared purpose and very, very common resolve.
In declaring this national holiday, President Lincoln called upon Americans to speak with “one voice and one heart.” That’s just what we have to do.
We have just finished a long and bruising political campaign. Emotions are raw and tensions just don’t heal overnight. It doesn’t go quickly, unfortunately, but we have before us the chance now to make history together to bring real change to Washington, real safety to our cities, and real prosperity to our communities, including our inner cities. So important to me, and so important to our country. But to succeed, we must enlist the effort of our entire nation.
This historic political campaign is now over. Now begins a great national campaign to rebuild our country and to restore the full promise of America for all of our people.
I am asking you to join me in this effort. It is time to restore the bonds of trust between citizens. Because when America is unified, there is nothing beyond our reach, and I mean absolutely nothing.
Let us give thanks for all that we have, and let us boldly face the exciting new frontiers that lie ahead.
Thank you. God Bless You and God Bless America.
I object. Is America worthy of a reflective patriotism that doesn't mindlessly assert, 'My country, right or wrong'?
The United States of America thrives on diversity. America is a home to all, such that no one group can call itself more “American” than another. A diverse organization is one that values the difference in people.
What exactly does “speak with one voice” mean? Essentially, it means that risk communicators and crisis communicators – and in fact all communicators – should do whatever it takes to ensure message consistency. The most extreme version demands total centralization of the public communication role; everyone is told to refer all inquiries to a single source. More moderate versions involve generating a set of key messages that everyone is supposed to stick to. http://www.psandman.com/col/onevoice.htm
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Thank your for your stuck-up answer. I'm talking about "tyranny of the majority" and you turned it around against me as if dissent is selfish and one-sided.
So, what is the answer? To have the left do exactly what they complained about the right doing?
Like I said. Everyone wants to complain if exactly what they want isn't what everyone has to swallow. Forget unity. Forget compromise. Me, me, me. Mine, mine, mine.
This country will continue its fractious existence as long as this selfish entitlement philosophy is the order of the day.
Politics is an ever changing game. When Obama was President, there was the Tea Party who protested, now that Trump is President-Elect, many Liberals are protesting. Right to free speech & protest, I say. Americans have this right.
- ahorsebackposted 6 years ago
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