> and makes it impossible to have a dispassionate discussion about what happened.

I don't mean to nitpick, but why would you want to be dispassionate about your rights?

If anything, being dispassionate has caused the steady erosion of our rights. Americans are asleep at the wheel and not looking out for the greater world (& their own) interests.

Instead, Americans dispassionately accept being told what to think and what to dream of.

Now detachment, I can get behind. But feel what you feel. It's good for you.