Carpundit, in a comment on another post, wrote this and I just wanted to move it up here. It captures perfectly the American political system:
We have grown so tired of political rhetoric that only the loudest of it gets through anymore. We have grown so tolerant of loud debate that any opinion short of violence is a reasoned one. We have grown so used to there being two sides to every issue that any opinion is valid as long as someone says something on the other side.
That is an excellent description of the state of American politics today, especially the last sentence.
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