So true. Far too many people today, many of whom I suspect have a recent inclination to harboring particular political views at all, are missing the entire poi

So true. Far too many people today, many of whom I suspect have a recent inclination to harboring particular political views at all, are missing the entire point of politics - that it's a debate. It's the great debate, the one that we set up entire electoral systems to have, and built entire buildings in which it would be held. Today, a dangerous number of people are outright enraged by having their dogmatic political beliefs challenged, and they'll go to great lengths to ensure that you can't share yours. It's a mess. Years ago, attempts at political conversation were more often than not met with indifference and you had to find like-minded people interested in having them. We used to bemoan that too few people were engaged in politics. Who knew that it would be this much of a mess once they were.