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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This echoes the White House insiders remarks from last summer regarding the difference between fact-based realities and the multiple faith-based ones of the Administration. By insisting that facts are not worthy of attention, and that they do not matter, the discourse becomes unhinged from substance, flying about, in ever increasing swirls of vitriol and venom, as Carpundit to eloquently describes.
Have any of you channel surfed past PAX and watched a segment of the series: Faith Under Fire? Or caught the CSPAN version of it? I mention it only because of the immense frustration it produces when faith-based realities collide with religious facts(the actual theological and philosophical artifacts of the religions being discussed). I can't take more than a few minutes before i start ranting and raving at my TV, falling into the malaise a la Carpundit.
No! No! It's all true! I saw it on a Video News Release! It must all be true!
More Newspeak and Meaningless Words, please!