L.H., I wish what you are saying were true but more and more Republicans are buying into the wacky minority and are enabling
and defending this behavior.

First of all, there is no measurement that says that Republicanism is
half the people in the U.S. That's inaccurate. The American people
voted for the Democratic Party. Obama is the president of choice
and he is a Democrat. The enormity of the problem of this country is that it is being controlled by lobbyists who are fueling the crazy behavior of the Republicans. Being in the UK, you may not be able to see that.

Yes, there is a Civil War going on in the US today. I wish it were
just well-meaning and misguided people who are fueling the fire.
Unfortunately, there are those who think they stand to profit by
these insane ideologies that are infecting our democracy.

What leads to no-good is a denial that everyone should "just get along" and these problems will just go away.

No where good has been going on in the country for a very long time.

Many of these so-called well-meaning people are crazy ideologues who
have bought into the propaganda by corporations, drug companies and crooked insurance companies. (Yes, crooked!)

Republicans have a responsibility to reclaim the sanity in their Party and
unfortunately they have not had the temerity to speak out. They are content to let the crazy fringe speak for them. Name me one Republican
who has spoken out against these town hall atrocities? Maybe there is one but that doesn't reflect the nature of the contemporary Republican
Party.

There is a historical precedence for this "go along" attitude. It involves
dicators and guns.