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Originally posted by Penske_Account
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.
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This is crap and you know it is crap. Poltics in this country is just like any other sport. People pick a side and then will go through horrible mental contortions to rationalize and justify all actions engaged in by their side while at the same time excorciating all actions, no matter how innocuous or well-intentioned, by the other side. It becomes a win-at-any-cost scenario with all the rationality and concern about "rights of the people" as you will find in a FB discussion about whether the Yankees or Red Sox are a more worthy team. The FB is sort of the lowest common denominator of this effect. Even if a debate has its origins in a passionate discussion of the real or hyopthesised effects on the rights of the people, it quickly devolves into an orgy of buffoonery and vitriol. The politics board is a cess pool and, even worse, it is boring. But, in those respects, it at least is an accurate representation of politics as a whole in this country.
