This is ridiculous
If people cannot express political views with the tolerance of their neighbors then we are in real trouble as a society. And this I know of what I speak. I work in an environment that can only be described as very left wing and I am very uncomfortable expressing my political views despite the fact that most of my co-workers have no such compunction. The fact is leftist views are acceptable in public conversation and conservative views are not. I do have to admit that many of the people I work with are the type of people I think we need on both sides of the political divide: Tolerant, accepting, & open-minded. I don't expect them to convert to my way nor do they expect I will to theirs, and I can be friends with them because politics is only one small part of our daily life. Despite that, many of the people I come into contact with on a daily basis assume I must think like they do and make it clear that any who do not are, well, stupid, racist, bigoted, selfish, uneducated, small-minded, or evil. I kid you not, "evil". And that is why I do not let most people know of my conservative leanings. Perhaps the problem is my own cowardice, but I won't take all the blame. The left has taken civil discourse and reduced it to us-against-them, and I am them.
My bet? My hope, really, is that the perpetrators of the attacks in Willowdale are extreme-leftists unhappy with those right wing Liberals. If not I will be ashamed to call myself a conservative.
