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• Wednesday, November 7, 2007 05:51 AM

  Huh?

  Why is the Salon audience far more knowledgable and perceptive then half of the blockheads you feature? I got this "civility" crap from the Inquirer and the DNC liberals that staff it (although they ARE good people), highlighting **Leiberman** as a casualty of this "rabid polarization".

  Josh Marshall said it best (paraphrasing) when he moved from a centrist to a more emboldened stance, that to claim the need for civility and dialogue when the other guy is basically coming at you with a knife was to be a chump.

  Its not that the Democrats are too partisan, they're NOT PARTISAN ENOUGH in fighting against what has emerged as a neo fascist ethic from the right.

  I'm all willing to dialogue with someone who makes sense, Krstoff has written good articles on this in the Times, but conservatives are so driven by power needs, this idea of common ground is virtually useless. And if the author knew his history, he would be well aware that since the post WWII period, it has been the right with their first poster boy, Nixon, who have ramped up this division to accumulate and maintain power in this country.

  Americans have been involved in this kind of stuff since the beginning of the Republic. They used to circulate "scurrilous" pamphlets. How do you think Hamilton and Burr ended up in a duel?

  Please spare us from these whiners who recreate history and contemporary events in their own insipid fantasy.

  —kenkapkk Read kenkapkk's other letters
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