Aketon,

I didn't see the program. I will say this. Dialogue of any consequence is now
not a part of American discourse. The reason for this is that we are in the process of being taken over by Republican fascists. The dialogue has been reduced to diatribe for political purposes. I don't think it's ever been this extreme before when the American public can't talk to each other if they are on a different political side.

My experience with trying to talk to Republicans is that the discourse is never either taken seriously or so seriously that it turns into a shouting match.

What we are going through now is a clash of cultural values. One one hand, the Republican model of dictatorial and patriarchal iron-handed pronouncements and on the other side, a denial of basic nurturing and compassionate ideas sacrificed to policies, facts and wonks.

The two sides are unable to communicate with each other because of the extremity and polarity of our country based on the aforementioned.

Frank