Originally Posted by retmil46

Good lord - I've looked at the threads where the D's and R's are arguing, especially the one where JR marked his return - and frankly, to me, it's pretty danged disgusting.

It's like we're stuck in the movie "Groundhog Day" - those guys are going at it with renewed bile and vigor as if it were Day 1 of the campaign.

I can well understand, and share, Roy's disgust with political threads here in OD - practically every type of racial, social, political, and religious slur or insult you can think of offhand.

If that's what passes for "adult" political discourse these days, little wonder the country is as divided as it is, and close to half of eligible voters have basically given up on the whole process.

Nature of the beast I suppose. With only 2 parties, all you have to do is make the other guy look like the "spawn of satan" to borrow a phrase from Anne Coulter. With 3 or more parties, then it's flipped and you have to make yourself look better than the other alternatives.