I mean when it comes to politics. I'm just thinking of the elections we've got here in the UK now. I mean there's plenty of scorn and arguing, but there's not much in the way of genuine hate.

Of course the differences between our parties is less than it used to be, resulting in widespread apathy. But the differences between your parties in the States are pretty minor, when it comes to actual issues. Two wings of our Conservative Party at daggers drawn with each other. Plenty to argue about, but why the level of hate?

It occurs to me that maybe there's a feeling that in order to have an argument you have to work up a personal fury against the people you are arguing with - the kind of thing that sometimes crops up in threads on the Mudcat.

Very strange.