“...This is some wild thread, imagine what it will be like HERE NEXT year...”
There’s been worse. People are on edge because so much is at stake.
Folks need to remember who the enemy is, that’s all. Sometimes, we can be our own worst enemies, and instead of learning from it...well, we get McCain.
Patrick Henry said it best in his St. John’s speech:
“....But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do, opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely, and without reserve. ..”
Why things dissolve into vitriol and name-calling... well, I think there’s a few different explanations for it.
There’s emotions, obviously; there are folks who have a parallax viewpoint - the difference in perspective of the same object when viewed from different angles.
There’s also trolls and disinformatziya folks who look to start trouble.
It is what it is. That’s why there are Admin Mods. Let them deal with it when it gets out of hand.
2008 I recall Huckabee, Romney and McCain as candidates.
And talk radio begging that actor Fred Thomson to jump in and save us.
In 2012, I don't even want to list our choices there, and talk radio was begging Palin to jump in and save us.
McCain and Romney got the campaign $$$ from Chamber types, it was over before the primary reached my state. I dont know I bother voting anyway.