[raybbr]

. I am assuming that taking the lower ground like our adversaries includes the abusive behaviour. That implication seem clear to me. I take issue with abusive and insulting discourse.

So, you think reason and wit will convince these rabid humans to change? Really?

[GingisK]

...rabid humans...

Actually, I would first encourge everyone, including "them", to discuss matters of state less rabidly. Then maybe we could make some progress.

People whose opinion radically differs from your own are not necessarily unpatriotic or evil. They just see things differently; and, like many Conservatives, never seemed to learn to discuss matters calmly or intellegently. We "fight" nowadays rather than "negotiate". We have lost touch with the spirit of compromise and the very nature of statesmanship.

If civility cannot be restored to the political process, then there can only be a real civil war. Sometimes I think that might be the most reliable course.