It is pretty funny. The people wanting us to be polite are always the ones getting in the way of finding solutions. That's because as it turns out, it's quite r

It is pretty funny. The people wanting us to be polite are always the ones getting in the way of finding solutions. That's because as it turns out, it's quite rude to have to re-think your worldview! No doubt there are some nice tactical wins. For each of those, my money says society loses more with all the people that get shut down and just don't talk any more. Admittedly that's a theoretical debate, but such is the nature of these things. Talking about theory, direct democracy was never a goal of the United States. In fact, there was a lot done to prevent it. Twitter closing the feedback loop and making things more direct and immediate would be considered a horrible step backwards by most of the people who understood why the country was structured the way it was. If we've got to learn that lesson again, I guess that's the way goes.