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<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>[We are at an impass. I think you're deceiving yourself to say it's any different know than it was then. The only difference for you is that back then, you agreed with the rhetoric (some referred to it as vitriolic) coming from the left. So in your mind it was justified.</blockquote> <br /> If you say so. You're not offering any specifics, which fits into your false equivalency. I'm saying that it's very different now, and much more violence-oriented. It's a fact, for instance, that Obama gets many more death threats than Bush did. It's a fact that we didn't have Democrats treating Bush with open disrespect in the Chamber during his SOTU addresses, while 2 Republicans have done so to Obama so far. It's a fact that there was never any liberal equivalent to conservative talk radio during the Bush years. It's a fact that no Democrats ran for office in 2004 or 2006 suggesting that there should be a violent insurrection if the Republicans won, but in 2010 we had several Republicans saying there should be one if Democrats won.<br /> <br /> But some dudes called Bush Hitler! So it's just the same now as it was then! Because everything is always the same, or something.</blockquote> <br /> Yeah. I say so. You seem to be operating from the "it's defferent because we're right" perspective.<br /> <br /> But what of it? Let's pretend your right. That this guy is a right wing extremist who spent everyday getting charged up listening to Glenn Beck while jerking off to pictures of Sarah Palin's crosshair marked congressional map. What then?<br /> Do you think they should be prosecuted as accomplices? What's your endgame?</blockquote> <br /> I've made it clear that I'm not interested in any such prosecutions.<br /> <br /> My "endgame" is that I'd like more reasonable and truthful political discourse in this country. My opinion is that most of the craziness in that field is being driven by the right-wing and has been for decades, for a variety of reasons.<br /> <br /> I find it interesting that you claim I'm the one who is so biased, but when I talk about actual events and offer actual evidence for my position you don't even bother to try to offer any for your own. So your position seems to be that political discourse is always static, with an equal amount of noise coming from the left speaker and the right speaker, all the time, regardless of what's actually happening.<br /> <br /> Okay. It seems like you'd have to know nothing about history in order to maintain that fantasy, but if it helps you sleep at night carry on.
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