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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (15289)	1/14/2005 4:56:55 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Certainly, hate is seductive, and today's leaders learned that lesson well. The harder questions moderates have to deal with are: --How do you unpoison a political process that has fed on hate so long that it can't see anything else? How do you make space for genuine moderates who can change the status quo? Most real moderates left the scene already, in Congress and the Cabinet. --How do you create a popular revulsion against the politics of hatred? How do you undo what works, and create a better way? The saddest thing about US politics today, for me, is that hardly anyone is asking those questions. They are just playing the hate game from one side or the other. And we learned that even the most obvious exposition of lies, deceit, waste and hatemongering fell 65,000 votes short.