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To: tejek who wrote (224283)	3/16/2005 1:45:41 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1586427

When in American history was the right more polite? More polite than they are now, not more polite than the left, I wasn't trying to compare the two. Both the left and the right used to be more polite. Certainly, it had to predate Joe McCarthy. McCarthy was going after communists not liberals. He went beyond impolite. A lot of the charges he made where true but then he made false charges as well, and generally went to far. He wasn't typical of Republicans or conservatives, response to Democrats or liberals at that time. Frankly, you act as if the right had been out of power for decades prior to Bush's arrival. In fact, conservatives have been more in power than liberals over the past 20 years. Who said anything about limiting the discussion to the last 20 years? In any case conservatives haven't exactly been in a dominate position over the last 20 years. Clinton was president for 8 of those years, and Bush Sr, while certainly not a liberal democrat, wasn't very conservative and he was president for 4. For most of that time the liberals had more influence in news rooms and in state governments. For all of that time they had more influence in academia. For a big chunk of that time congress was either run by democrats or was divided. Were you even alive when Goldwater was around? He was around until 1998. If you mean was I alive when he ran against Johnson in '64 the answer is no. I think you are taking isolated incidents and turning them into something bigger to justify the right's current behavior. And your taking isolated incidents and individuals and making them look like the norm as well. In both cases these incidents are frequent enough to cause some concern, but most of the incidence of actual violence or intimidation or vandalism seems to come from the left. The more extreme Republicans denounce those on the left as socialists or traitors. The more extreme democrats vandalize Republican party vans that where to be used in get out the vote campaigns, and shoot up local republican party offices. As for justifying the rights current behavior it is not all one thing. Different people and organizations do different things, some justified, some not. Often the political rhetoric is overly harsh but that is simply part of modern politics. It was also part of how politics was played in the 19th century (actually it was probably harsher then), its nothing new. Tim