I feel that we took a nose dive but then regained some balance.
(Edit-I was typing this during the last few posts. I take it back
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Yes.
But there is still the tendency to bash, on a personal level, people who don't agree with you.
The woman in the photo Barry posted is apparently associated with a Christian organization.
Does that make all Christians "bullies and racists with a penchant for self-aggrandizement"?
I don't think so.
It is much more time efficient to paint all political opponents with the same broad brush than it is to deal with specific issues.
I think the Tea Party movement is alarming because public protest and demonstrations have a long history (in this country at least) of being the exclusive province of the left. It's much harder to get conservatives, individualists by definition, to engage in that kind of group behavior.
That trend and the effect it might have on future elections is what I believe engenders such hatred.
We'll see in November, I guess.
As far as I can tell, what they are really about is limiting the size of the federal government and getting a handle on the rampant spending.
Pretty threatening concepts.
As far as spelling and grammar, there are plenty of errors around here as well, despite the ol' Spell-Checker.
(Which I use extensively BTW!)
Just acause sumbody ain't got book-lernin' don't mean they's stoopid!