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Well said and what comes to my mind in this time of polarization where are the opposites to these folk who get far more air time and legitimacy?
Ann Coulter
Sean Hannity
Bill O'Reilly
Lou Dobbs
etc
The increasingly extreme push by the right since Reagan (including our best Republican President Bill Clinton, just ask Greenspan) has made people like myself more vocal and defiant because it is a matter of survival. When people like Coulter can spew the hate filled murderous diatribes that she does and it goes unchecked, uncorrected and even applauded, well sorry it isn't Al Gore's internet to blame, it is the corporate and political stench that has infected this land.
That is not to say there isn't an echo chamber on both sides, there is and it is human nature, right or wrong.
However intelligent people on opposite sides of the divide usually are willingly to try dialogue but it is rare to find the airtime and secondly those able to discuss rationally and calmly, agreeing to disagree without it sinking into a form of "Jane you ignorant slut." Because it isn't entertaining enough or guarantees ratings
Finally NPR liberal, the NYTimes liberal?? Bill O'Reilly not polarizing? Good night and good luck.
