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Originally posted by Gattigap
Probably not. The difference may lie in our relative preferences for the PB to resemble the daily screaming match found in a city board meeting.
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In 25 years of being around politics I have scarcely seen a political dialogue that was any different but for short periods of time. Politics is passionate subject because any discussion involves real or hyopthesised affects on the rights of the people discussing. It should be passionate. I get offended when people propose things that diminish my rights. If I only discussed politics with someone who was for a flat tax then it would be a short and not-so passionate conversation. Maybe if more people acted like the people who go to city council meetings and scream, the voter turnout in the US would be less anemic. And then we would have real representative democracy. For better or worse. But when people don't care enough to be passionate, you get what we have now, which I don't think you are so crazy about, so much.
