[Vision2020] Polarization

[Rob Keenan]

Hear, hear! Just because I hate "Mallard Fillmore" doesn't mean I have any
fondness for "Doonesbury."

I prefer it when people ask me how I feel about a topic before assuming
that's how things are as a matter of fact. ("You're a gay liberal? That must
mean you're an atheist, too!" "Uhhhhh ...")

ROB

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846@hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:45 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Polarization


> I just read Nicholas Kristof's editorial in the New York Times, in which
he
> decries the increasing vitriol nationwide between conservatives and
> liberals.  He excoriates BOTH sides for their intemperance.  As he puts it
> "the result - everybody shouting at everybody else - corrodes the body
> politic and is counterproductive.."  His piece concerns the Democratic
party
> hurting itself with its anger, but after reading the Vision 2020 e-mails
> from last night, he might as well have been speaking of this forum.  There
> are good people on both sides of this continuing public-private school
> debate, with good points to make, but the dialogue has lately been
anything
> but constructive.  To quote Kristof, "At this rate, soon we'll all be so
> rabid that Ann Coulter will seem normal."  One itch I have to scratch:
When
> debating this issue, invariably one poster will say "that's the way you
> liberals are", followed by "that's the way you conservatives are", ad
> nausem.  As someone who considers himself a liberal, please don't presume
to
> completely know my mindset.  If you're a conservative, I won't presume to
> completely know yours.
>
>
>
> Carl Westberg Jr.
>
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