I agree wholeheartedly, but I would add that the biggest strain in any political season, especially one as intense and important (as these thigns go) as this one, is the twisting, bending, filtering and distortion of information on both sides. It is mind-boggling to see someone decided to go into a full hydrophobic foaming schpiel about an issue which in nomral times would be thrown out as insignificant, just in the hiopes they can create fear, uncertainty and doubt. These FUD manufacturers ruin the dialogue. The armwaving extremists and conspiracy-mongers are even worse but at least they are kind of obvious, like a rabid squirrel. The whole thing stains the public discourse like an old pair of wino BVDs. Dona nobis pacem, at least for a few days.


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