What planet are you visiting from?
There has always been dissention, a sign of a healthy political system, but not like the last 40 years. This goes beyond dissention and is a war in every respect other than gunpowder. There is nothing healthy at all about our present domestic politics.
I never thought I would live to see the day when treason and sedition are used daily as tools of advantage in the most inane arguments devoid of substance. It's like spoiled mentally deficient children wanting a "turn" at an enclusively adult and sober, deadly serious business.
You've nailed it.
The weekend news cycle is now so vile that I can no longer stomach it.
The one ray of light is that there still remains a plurality of common-sense Americans who get what is at stake. Despite all the spin by the Leftist Mediacrats, there is a center that is still holding firm. This would not have been possible without alternative sources of information and analysis like FR, Talk Radio and Fox News. AS VDH states
This fight for the future of Iraq is turning out to be for more than a referendum on democracy in the Middle East, but rather a trial of our own culture here at home.