Has there ever been a time when politics was so ugly? [View All]

Thanks to shrub I got invovled. Could no longer sit by passive.

So maybe I am just naive to the reality of politics in the good old US of A. But as I listen to pundit shows, or read magazines it seems all anyone is talking about is politics and religion.

And, everyone, I mean EVRYone, is polraized.

As I look at the DU board tonight I see people saddened by what the world has become, I read about a teacher in America, well Kansas, being beaten for teaching against ID, KKKulter and Limballs daily lies and self- promotion, Savage gong ape shit on the air, KKultur releasing the name and phone number of an opponent blogger,Michael Reagan says Dean should be arrested and hung for treason, why the right hates Harry Potter, and so it goes.

Can anyone here tell me, is this a particularly ugly and vicious time in the world for politics, and for religion?

Was it this nasty during the Viet Nam era?

Or has the radicalright elevated politics to the art of personal destrtuction, and personality assasination, non-sensical hysterical trumped up issues like the War on terror, The War on Christmas, and the cultural wars?

Who is to blame, did the RW start the nasty, cheap, lying, ham fisted approach to political discourse?

And what do we do about it?