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The shrill tone in American politics has always irritated me. Be it economic policy or going to war, it seems terribly easy to choke off a sensible argument by
by paulkoer 15y ago
The shrill tone in American politics has always irritated me. Be it economic policy or going to war, it seems terribly easy to choke off a sensible argument by calling it 'unamerican'. Maybe controversy and argument should be resuscitated as American values... Clearly having had a sensible argument over, say, the Irak war, no matter the outcome, would not seem so ridiculous now. The way I remember it, this was pretty much impossible in the media.
- Cushman 15y agoIt's really the height of irony. If there's one guiding principle that Americans should believe in, it's that we're all Americans, and that America is all of us. There's really nothing more un-American than calling someone who lives here un-American. But of course ya can't say that.
- orky56 15y agoVery good point. If the majority of Americans advocate for something "un-American", then you really need to think what's what. That's the revolution Wall St is trying to prevent.