Is "Politcal Correctness" destroying this great Nation?
541934
It is not destroying the nation, but attacking it's First Amendment right to free speech.  Our politicians who think the general public is so stupid adopted this so they can be two faced and get everybody to vote for them, because no one can be offended. I, for one, hate political correctness.  You can put a fancy dress on a pig and give it a fancy name, but when it gets to the trough it's still a pig.
819506
This, unfortunately, is what the politics board has ALWAYS been. Now that the crass and crude here don't have candidates to insult, they turn on one another.\n\nThe shame of our nation: we have lost respect for opposing views. How will we ever stand together against terrorism, if we can't even be civil to one another?
903649
Man you people need to get off the same rhetoric that you have been thinking and saying.  All I ever hear is Bush’s illegal war and Clinton’s secret bombings with jets painted to be from NATO. You know the question is not even about that.  Did you know that there were draft riots because people did not want to fight in the civil war?  \nIf you look at the untied states over the past 100 years you can see the changes.  Every generation has gotten a little worse.  Now all you see on TV is sex and violence.  This has been a slow growing thing until computers. Now we are moving faster and losing all the respect for each other but mostly for ourselves.  This nation should be ashamed of the things we do. I know that the question is about when did we lose respect for the presidency but you can not just say that that is all we have lost respect for.   As far as the presidency goes I would say it started to get real ugly when we were losing so many men in Vietnam. People are all happy when in the times of WWII and we were winning.  Thousands of people died but we were seeing much progress.  When we were getting no real results people got mad and blamed the president.  Now that is when I can say flat out blatant disrespect for the president came to rise.  Which right about the time that the liberal party was hijacked by radicals.  To think that it was once a great party.
975854
Politically Correctness is backwards.  I don't mean oxi-moron, I dissapprove of anarchy.  If everyone were to be truly politically correct, language would die.
838093
I sure hope not....but yeah, I think it has. I also think people are so de-sensitized by all this bullshit that our country is just a bunch of whiney, look away, greedy, muffin tops!
888313
of course it was. That pyrrhic victory (or however the hell you spell it) was evident in the current election that just took place. The republicans use to dominate the senate and house. now the democrats have swooped in and taken it back because the american people has seen how inefficient the country has become under a republican regime. a new "counterculture" has emerged that is probably going to pull this country out ofa rut and bring it into the 21st century.
791657
Cindy, thank you for your provocative question.  It would be refreshing to hear honest and sincere debate and discourse.  Instead, there is an over abundance of "name-calling", "vulgarity", and "rage".  Often we treat and speak to our dog better than the President of the United States or in reference to our Creator. Neither Democrats or Republicans are "idiots" though we sometimes behave as such and God is alive and well and still putting up with our "un-like" God behaviors.
756971
Liberals are destroying this country\n\nPeace
960875
I think the word is "waning", Sir.\n\nPolitical Correctness is getting to be a pain, though.\n\nHave a nice day.
573613
Political correctness is like a cochroach. When you see it, you gotta stomp it quick before it can breed!\n     Oooooooooooops , to late.
564293
it says that our current government is doing a bad job governing the country as a whole. It's just that simple believe it or not. \n\nSometimes it gets so bad that partisanship doesn't even matter anymore and voters from other parties will vote for candidates other than their own.
224819
YES! YES! and again yes.As you are already aware, in this world today,ecspecially in the Good Ole USA,you are either politically correct,bury your head in the sand,or speak out and be a radical trouble causing ungrateful citizen which is one step short of being a terrorist yourself.\nI'll just stop here.Thanks for letting me answer.
1116193
Another closed-minded lemming not willing to recognize that open debate and free-thinking form the foundation of our republic...\n\nDisagreeing with the government and expressing the ideas of the opposition is the highest form of respect one can show for your country...being a blind follower of the regime is where the disgrace lies...\n\nAnd notice that this statement is non-partisan...I don't care who has control...QUESTION WHAT THEY'RE DOING...and if it doesn't seem right, fight it...
758365
2 words. Political Correctness.\n   To my British cousins-the sooner you crush your left, and vote them out of your government, the sooner you eliminate the unworkable Utopian pipe dream that allows those who hate you to live in your great nation.  Not only to live, but to collect welfare until the day they get the phone call to strap on a dynamite belt and waltz into a school.
542439
Political correctness is unjust and nonsense where common sense barley makes it. It increases prejudice and discrimination by picking on and highlighting issues that before was not there but only in the cranky minds of the political correctness brigade. It barmy liberal laws has benefited hard and persistant criminals as themselves real victims and treated so softly that the police are now powerless to stop criminals re-offending which for the real victims of these criminal brutes they are the last consideration only to be insulted by court decisions of leniency to their wrongdoers.\nPolitical correctness is has become a cancer to decent common sense and blights our society and it is high time it was thrown into the history books of legalised madness that should never be allowed to rear it's ugly head again.
968884
Oh boy, You done fudged up now.\n\nI have been preaching to all my friends and families for many a sintary about the gov and poloitics.\n\nfirst off, who the fudge packer thinks they are perfect enough to run a whole freaking country.\nand who does the gov think they are.\n\nHow does one team of people have all the power over a whole freaking nation btw.\n\nSorry, Im gonna have to stop before they kik this answer off.\nlol Politics, B*&^ $*!*
508074
Politacally correct covers many areas.Ethics,morals,mannerism,etc.If you are politically correct then noone is insulted by your actions.No elbows on the table while eating,racial slurs,combing your hair in public...the list goes on and on and sometimes borders on absurd.Oops that statement was politically incorrect.