Quote:As I've stated before in similar discussions, politics have always polarized to some extent, but the modern nastiness and egregious hyperbole were seeded in the early 90s.

 

That's when more and more politicians began to hire teams of lawyers and strategists to destroy their competition (rather than win the arguments on policy to win office,) and radicals began to implement the Alinsky model to a higher degree than ever before.  From it, bore the radical groups Acorn and moveon.org, who are designed to break the system and bully the public into accepting their agenda against the will of the majority.  The end game being, eliminating the competition of debate and in turn, eliminating any dissent from their singular, narrow point of view.  Again, ideas and actions that had always been around, but not to the extent it had begun to ramp up at the time and accelerating into what we see today.

 

Gone is John Wayne as a model of American heroism and strength, and in with the sick celebration of the antihero, and blind destruction of everything that used to be, just for the sake of it.  The false premise of "progression" is actually tearing us down and taking us backward to a place we haven't been in decades on the world stage.  Arguably back to pre WWII in some regards.

 

Just look at the political bullying we're witnessing today.  Blocking roads and committing crimes to disrupt a candidate's rally is not voicing opposition.  Opposition is to be heard, and not destroyed.  That doesn't matter what side you're on.  But that's another pattern that's showing itself.  Those who have not effectively influenced their opposition through reasoning and argument are the very ones throwing those intellectual debates out the window in favor of brute force, and mob power.  And that, on its face, is a guarantee of disaster for the country, when intelligence, wisdom, and debate is overthrown by barbarians and brute force.

 

No one wants to win debates, some have even ignorantly claimed that the "debate is over."  Intelligent people who should know better than to make such declarations.  No, the debate continues... for as long as the mob allows it, I suppose.