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This is a pleasantly insightful piece about the crazed extremes to which our political/social/cultural systems have gone...
You speak of the inability of many folks to disagree amicably. And you do a decent job of pointing to one of the why's this is so.
I wish more people were this insightful -- we'd all be a whole lot richer for it.
I've sighted this in my blog as well -- it's well worth sharing.
As someone who's watched the father that raised her in Berkeley by choice, who taught her to question *everything*, who taught her to read the *good* science fiction and who encouraged her to protest when she found intolerance or indignity in the world, but who now votes so far to the right that she barely recognizes his politics, I have some understanding of your issues. While mine hasn't had quite that level of melt down, the woman he married (2nd wife) certainly has -- in front of my thoroughly confused husband. Family is never easy -- but like you, I still love him and all he gave me. Birks and all :>.
