| steven787 said: I'm reading the comments over here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14714_Page3.html |
Politics can do strange things to people...and misinformation can do even worse thing to people. Couple that with the fact that the average person is pretty dishonest and you are just asking for trouble.
I find the Right a bit more hateful than the Left, but then again I am probably biased. But the only people on the Left I see teeming with hatred are generally the environmentalists (and often for good cause, because we rape the environment in the butthole daily). You have your Michael Moore variety liberals too. But the Left has been justified in sending out a bit more hate for the last eight years, because this country has really taken a nosedive in terms of respectability and standing up for the Constitution.
I think most of the hate on the Right originates from the Religious Right, ironically. They should be the peacemakers in the party, but they are generally the loony ones. You get them into a room with the Republicans who actually have sane ideas and I think the sane Republicans even kind of give into all the hating.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
