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I had a whole big thing about how political discourse in this country is the inverse of what any reasonable country would expect (hint: George Washington never said, "I wasn't encouraging those colonists to shoot Redcoats, I was just saying how it's clear that a lot of Americans want to"), but it really boiled down to this:
Is there any hope?
Do you honestly think we can stop all this bickering and scary threats and actual incidents of violence and get to a place where discourse on political and social issues isn't constantly distorted into a horrible false dichotomy of "What Fox News Tells Me" and "Everything Else, Which is Necessarily Wrong"?
And is there anyone else who finds it funny that Stupak got called "baby killer"* by a Republican colleague after he finally agreed that the House bill didn't actually authorize the government to order millions of women to perform abortions?
* Yes, I know the guy responsible says he was "calling the bill" a Baby-killer, but really. I refuse to believe that the vast majority of these people have "anti-common sense" that causes them to say exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong moment to make it seem like they have the most vile intentions. It's much simpler to believe most of them are assholes.
Is there any hope?
Do you honestly think we can stop all this bickering and scary threats and actual incidents of violence and get to a place where discourse on political and social issues isn't constantly distorted into a horrible false dichotomy of "What Fox News Tells Me" and "Everything Else, Which is Necessarily Wrong"?
And is there anyone else who finds it funny that Stupak got called "baby killer"* by a Republican colleague after he finally agreed that the House bill didn't actually authorize the government to order millions of women to perform abortions?
* Yes, I know the guy responsible says he was "calling the bill" a Baby-killer, but really. I refuse to believe that the vast majority of these people have "anti-common sense" that causes them to say exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong moment to make it seem like they have the most vile intentions. It's much simpler to believe most of them are assholes.