Well politics has cycles of this. Read Strauss & Howe's "Generations: THe History of America's Future 1580 to 2066."
The level of discourse is certailnly in the playground, but the levels of hostility have been as bad or worse in this country. I mean congressmen and Senators you to shoot each other in the rotunda, or beat each other with canes. Hell, a duel in a park south of San Francisco was the reason California remained as part of the Union in the Civil War. And the ramp up to the Civil War was about as childish as it ever gets, because at that point there could be no compromise between sides.
On another note, I do miss reading your writings here.
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Date: 2004-07-21 08:02 am (UTC)Well politics has cycles of this. Read Strauss & Howe's "Generations: THe History of America's Future 1580 to 2066."
The level of discourse is certailnly in the playground, but the levels of hostility have been as bad or worse in this country. I mean congressmen and Senators you to shoot each other in the rotunda, or beat each other with canes. Hell, a duel in a park south of San Francisco was the reason California remained as part of the Union in the Civil War. And the ramp up to the Civil War was about as childish as it ever gets, because at that point there could be no compromise between sides.
On another note, I do miss reading your writings here.
Scott