Crooked Hillary!

Treating everyone with equal respect isn't a political opinion.

Treating everyone with a basic level of courtesy until they have proven that they don't deserve it? Sure. Treating everyone with respect without even knowing who they are? Absolutely not. Respect should be both given when earned and taken away when necessary, but never used as a "base" method of dealing with everyone you meet. Forcing everyone to treat everyone with full blown respect for no reason is why we have this entitled generation to begin with, you have to work years diligently to earn real respect, the only "respect" someone I don't know earns is basic common courtesy. I'm not going to slam a door in the face of a person I have never met, I will hold it open for them, I will smile even if I don't particularly care who they are and don't know if I will ever see them again because that's common decency. You can, of course, lose the right to basic courtesy, but I'm still not going to attack or kill a person unless it's in defense of life, that's something a level below courtesy but above outright hatred that should be applied to everyone regardless of how much of a scumbag they are.

Assuming this was a response to me, I don't actually know how it applies to my previous post, though, I said nothing about respect, unless you think even when these people are making complete asses of themselves they still deserve it, in which case, no, they do not, they do not even maintain the right to common courtesy after the clown show they've been putting on particularly in the past decade. Very few among the famous of any career have ever earned my respect, they (almost) always turn out to be fake, the character traits that are almost required in order to enjoy the spotlight are very narcissistic and self serving. And before you even ask, no, I do not particularly respect Trump, but he was the best choice given to me.