...and suggesting it be moved to the Smokey Back Room doesn't cover-up that truth.
Politics is nasty business. Especially today, when the health and security of our nation is at stake.
Politics has always been a nasty business. Our times are no different from all others in that regard. However, what we see on threads like this is not about politics. It's about something dark in the human spirit; something that has always been in us, but which civilization supposedly tames in us.
Civilization, civil, civic, civics, civility -- they all have the same linguistic root, which is from the Latin "civilis:" of or affecting fellow citizens. We supposedly live in a highly civilized time, and yet civility seems to be crumbling all around us, civics are no longer taught in our schools, and our mass communications media are used to demean and degrade our fellow citizens even as they are dying.