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Re:If you want war, work for justice by viewsonic1234 on Sunday April 19, 2009 @05:34AM (#569285)
While I agreed with a lot of their positions, in retrospect the anti-Bush movement was bad for the level of discourse in this country. People became accustomed to dismissing their opponents as evil idiots, and this phenomenon is especially noticeable among my generation.

While I agreed with a lot of their positions, in retrospect the pro-Bush movement was bad for the level of discourse in this country. People became accustomed to dismissing their opponents as evil idiots, and this phenomenon is especially noticeable among my generation.

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Re:If you want war, work for justice by viggity on Sunday April 19, 2009 @10:20AM (#569422)
Both sides handled it poorly, but what I primarily saw was the pro-Bush side dismissing their opponents as just "idiots" or "well intentioned idiots", not "evil idiots". Which, is obviously not good for a healthy debate, but an idiot is totally different from an evil-idiot.

"Democrats are the party of hate. Republicans are the party of fear" - Penn Gillette

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG6JYsm1GmM

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Re:If you want war, work for justice by viewsonic1234 on Sunday April 19, 2009 @05:02PM (#569801)
The pro-Bush side encompasses a wide variety of people on the right and I'd swear that some of them thought the left were evil and were shovelling bucketfuls of hate as well. Maybe if you just listened to some of the more civil pundits on the right like David Brooks, William F. Buckley Jr. or George Will then you got a different view.
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