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While I agreed with a lot of their positions, in retrospect the anti-Bush movement was bad for the level of discourse in this country. People became accustomed
by viewsonic1234 18y ago
While I agreed with a lot of their positions, in retrospect the anti-Bush movement was bad for the level of discourse in this country. People became accustomed to dismissing their opponents as evil idiots, and this phenomenon is especially noticeable among my generation.
While I agreed with a lot of their positions, in retrospect the pro-Bush movement was bad for the level of discourse in this country. People became accustomed to dismissing their opponents as evil idiots, and this phenomenon is especially noticeable among my generation.
- viggity 18y agoBoth sides handled it poorly, but what I primarily saw was the pro-Bush side dismissing their opponents as just "idiots" or "well intentioned idiots", not "evil idiots". Which, is obviously not good for a healthy debate, but an idiot is totally different from an evil-idiot. "Democrats are the party of hate. Republicans are the party of fear" - Penn Gillette http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG6JYsm1GmM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG6JYsm1GmM
- viewsonic1234 18y agoThe pro-Bush side encompasses a wide variety of people on the right and I'd swear that some of them thought the left were evil and were shovelling bucketfuls of hate as well. Maybe if you just listened to some of the more civil pundits on the right like David Brooks, William F. Buckley Jr. or George Will then you got a different view.