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[winterbadger]

I gave up reading Daily Kos a while back because it was just far too filled with spite and loathing to be, IMO, productive. But I had a few minutes to eat my sandwich just now and thought I'd just take a quick look and see what they were talking about. And this article brought back all the memories of why I stopped going there in the first place.

Especially the statement that "most Republican outrages stem from hatred of others: the President, poor people, immigrants, brown people, gays, hippies, feminists, &c. It's rooted in the notion that We Are Good and They Are Bad."

And this would differ how, again, from the violent hatred and dehumanization by DK readers (and many other "mainstream" liberals/progressives) of anyone who disagrees with them?

If the president isn't able to achieve any bipartisan political rebuilding in this country, it's not going to be solely the fault of the GOP.

Comments

[ticktockmary.livejournal.com]

I stopped reading it for that same reason. How do people live with this level of anger in their systems every day? Not for me.

[schizokitty.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. Extremism is never solved by extremism, or hate by hate. Yeah, I get mad about some of the shit the wingnuts pull, but it's so dangerous to start us-ing and them-ing. I see the beginnings of this in fear and paranoia in some of groups I belong to, and I have called them out on it from time to time (not that what I say makes any difference).

I don't know -- is there a way to be civil these days? The angry voices are nearly always louder than the reasonable ones, and anger and hate are easier than objectivity and understanding. How can we get either -- preferably both! -- sides to stop behaving like spoiled children, when being assholes is apparently so much more fun?

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

I don't read it any longer either. It was just a bunch of shouting. My ex-husband was into that kind of "debate". It just makes me cringe.