MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Tea Party Zombies must die

> > Differing opinions, yes, but 'You're from *insert party here* so I'm going to try
> to stop anything you do rather than try to have an intelligent debate' goes nowhere.
>
> Yes, that's true. But remember when the Dems had a super majority in both houses,
> they held legislative sessions literally behind closed doors and barred the other
> party from even attending because they didn't care to work together and come to ANY
> compromises since they didn't have to. The public responded in outrage which resulted
> in a landslide historic replacement of the house with "tea party" candidates. The
> Senate would have met a similar fate except only 1/3 of the Senate was up for
> election. So now they HAVE to work together and compromise on legislation, and they
> hate that. The monopoly power is over.
>
> When they monopolized the government they were calling for "civil discourse" from the
> increasingly vocal opposition. Now that they've taken a beating in the ballots and
> the polls, it's ok to use inflamatory rhetoric like "they want to see black people
> hanging from trees" or mafia stylized threats like "It's time to take them out."
> Where's the condemnation now? Suddenly, no uncivil discourse is off limits because it
> serves the agenda of those still in power.
>
> Opposition is not a bad thing... it's what keeps our government moderate, by design.
> Demonizing one party because they oppose the ideas of the other isn't constructive...
> it's anti-democracy. It's akin to state control, martial law, censorship... however
> you want to label it, it's trying to silence any opposition. That's what bothers me
> the most about this administration... it's sheer arrogance and contempt... if you
> don't support it's agenda, they demonize with labels like racist, terrorist,
> uncompromising, unpatriotic. What happened to freedom of speech, equal voice,
> DEMOCRACY?

That's exactly my point about extremism and polarization, it completely stops civil discourse. I'm all about legit and open debate, but when you get statements like (and this is simply an example that comes to mind because I heard a reference to it this morning, I'm not saying one side does it more than another, and I'm sure I can find many similar to it on the left)