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Thread #71033 Message #1213080
Posted By: GUEST
23-Jun-04 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: MORE anti-democratic sleaze from Dems
Subject: RE: BS: MORE anti-democratic sleaze from Dems
Greg, you are seeing things through the distortion of the media, really. Americans aren't polarized and divided in everyday life like the media makes us out to be. Politics just aren't that powerful. There are forces that do divide some people--mostly cultural and social change forces. But still, I live and work among people with different political views, socialize with them in a lot of different cirucmstances.
The current depressingly combative political tone is largely the fault of the Newt phenomenon back in the mid-90s, and the subsequent right wing anti-Clinton hysteria that followed it. If there were any justice in this American political world at all, the Repubs would have toned it down and been much less partisan after the 2000 election debacle and 9/11, but it seems only to have emboldened them even more.