Poisonous politics damage America's democracy

[Zorro]

So here's the uber-Fascist Republican bootlicker Robert J. Caldwell pontificating in the San Diego Pravda-Tribune on the subject issue. Guesss what? It's those hysterical and disloyal Democrats that are to blame for the state of political dialog today!

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The hysterical reaction to Vice President Dick Cheney's unfortunate hunting accident serves, lamentably, as a metaphor for how poisonous our politics have become.

Nothing that happened that Saturday on a ranch in Texas threatens or even affects the national interest, although you'd never know that listening to the braying White House press corps last week. What does put America's national interests increasingly at risk are the bitterly divisive, slash-and-burn politics that have replaced reasoned debate and essential civility in the world's greatest democracy.

The notion that all great powers decay and fall from within is historically overstated but nonetheless usefully instructive. Think of Rome in antiquity, post-medieval Spain, Europe's latter-day monarchies, and, in our own time, the overstretched, morally hollow Soviet empire as examples brought down by their own internal flaws.

Now consider what, over time, can tear at the vitals of the American republic.

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More at: http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060219/news_lz1e19caldwel.html

Have at him. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind, asshole.

[ixion]

1. got that? the majority, that is, the one's in control, that is the one's

at the helm, are blaming those with little to no decision enforcing or making ability in the current political environment. And yet somehow this group of supposed 'liberals' are ruining the country, why? Because they've had the gaul to ask questions about the illegal invasion of Iraq, the burgeoning deficit and Commander Bunnypants, who seems hell bent on running our republic into the ground.

Yep, geez, those darn liberals. :eyes:

[Daphne08]

2. Uh, would someone like to remind him that the divisiveness

began in the Republican Party.

[Vexatious Ape]

3. Damn those liberals

Maybe someone needs to remind this asshole that the Conservatives run:
1 The White house
2 Congress.
3. The Senate.
4. The Pentagon.
5 Wall Street.
6 Arguably the mainstream corporate media.
7. Most of the Governorships.
So why do idiots like this guy always blame liberals for everything? Never mind, rhetorical question.

[justgamma]

4. And Clinton's BJ

was a vital national importance!
All the Cheney did was shoot somebody in the face. :sarcasm:

[JohnWxy]

5. THIS IS LIKE JACK THE RIPPER BLAMING THE WOMEN HE

HACKED TO DEATH FOR BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THE UNSAFE CONDITIONS ON THE STREETS OF LONDON.