I did read that entry; I've tried to cogitate on it. I agree with it, largely. As I told Snack below, the combination of 24-hour news cycles and crazies being able to find each other on the Internet has really ramped things up, definitely - as for the quality of rhetoric, for me that's still up for debate because I don't KNOW what it was like decades ago.
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Date: 2011-01-20 12:09 am (UTC)