hypercrites

Hell, BOTH sides demonize the other. This is not news.

It was my hope for this board that the no-holds-barred-free-for-all  idea would result in people here realizing that demonization isn't persuasive and so another tack is wiser to take, but, alas, both parties make victory a live-or-die desperate situation where demonization is essential and the issues buried.  That's one of the reasons I posted that poster in the other topic about how Can Kicking should be an Olympic sport.  Both sides have done this while politically reverting to crass knuckledragging tribal blood sport.

We have dire issues to address in this nation and can kicking is not an option.  Which means demonization is not an option.  However, basing one's politics on fiction isn't an option either, and it appears that the Republicans are more about fiction than the Dems are, although the Dems have their share of fiction as well.

We are all Americans here, and all of us on this board are of equal honored standing. Let's solve some problems and be persuasive, shall we?  I mean, the Anybody But Bush strategy didn't work for Dems during Dubya's tenure, and yet Republicans fantasize that Anybody But Obama will work better. Seems to me that this is trying the same thing over again expecting different results...however...neither party has cornered the market on sanity these days.

Just sayin'.

No generalization is ever completely accurate, and I agree that some on both sides engage in demonization, but my point isn't about demonization or name-calling.  It's that one side is based upon an idealistic theoretical model and the other isn't.  People who adhere to the model -- even very polite ones -- find it difficult to recognize the good faith of people who don't.