Spot on.

On edit: However, if what I've personally witnessed and what I hear anecdotally on DU is an indication, voter turnout is so massive that even widespread cheating can't change the results. The GOP is like the Dutch Boy with his finger in the dike while a 50 foot tsunami wave is demolishing the entire wall.

mindset of these evil assholes. Talk about warped minds!

I have never heard a more succinct description of what has been building in America since Reagan took office. It's a frightening prospect that we may be too late to stop the destruction and corruption. Even if that isn't true, it will be a long and painful process.

Like converting the dead to Mormonism.

And protecting the nation from double-lady marriage and what not.

I, for one, do not welcome our new insect overlords.

we now know, without a doubt, how far the Repigs will go to suppress the Constitution...

and we are much less knowledgeable than we think. I googled the professors mentioned below and they have some interesting things to say, and pairing that with Jonathan Heidt's work we can reach a better understanding of where we really are and how to start ending the shouting matches.

I think the most interesting point to me is Fernbach's suggestion to explain rather than assert. Another piece is Haidt's, much like Lakoff's, that most of our "beliefs" originate from emotional reaction and that reason will not change such a "belief" on it's own. But what to do with the frothing at the mouth extremists who look like they are going to have a fit of apoplexy, maybe we shouild just render them irrelevent. But changing a toxic political climate will have to involve leadership. And where is the money and the fun in that. Politics should be boring. Too many people make their living keeping things stirred up.

"CU psychology professor Leaf Van Boven has been doing extraordinary research challenging the popular perception that polarization is the operating mode preferred by the American citizenry, and revealing, instead, the existence of a majority of moderates.

Van Boven's work makes a close match to the findings of CU business professor Philip M. Fernbach. People asked to "justify" their political position become more entrenched and less moderate, Fernbach reports in a New York Times essay co-authored with Steven Sloman, a professor at Brown University. But ask people to "explain how [their] policy ideas work," and "they become more moderate in their political views." When people "explain, not just assert" they come to recognize the limits of their knowledge and become correspondingly more flexible and tolerant.

Thus, Sloman and Fernbach argue, if we are tired of extremism, "we can start to fix it by acknowledging that we know a lot less than we think.""

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_21908715/limerick-explaining-this-years-election