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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (148582)	11/1/2010 12:19:12 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543488

both parties are equally guilty of distorting the truth to their favor Once again, we disagree. I don't think that Democrats have distorted reality to anywhere even close to how Republicans have since the beginning of the Reagan administration. That isn't the same as saying that they have distorted truth at all. Or that they haven't been even more guilty in earlier times. One of the bigger distortions came in 1896--Plessey v. Ferguson. Democrats exploited that lie for all it was worth for decades. Until the charade was finally ended in the LBJ administration. But since 1981, the Republicans win the distortion game by far.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (148582)	11/1/2010 5:00:39 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543488

We have no meaningful discourse here with or without teabaggers or teabaggery. People on the left post their articles, and people on the right post theirs (of course at least this thread has both sides- but I can't say I see anything positive coming from that). What we have here is a staking out of territory. The only meaningful conversations I've seen have been between people who are essentially on the same "side" but who see things slightly differently. There's not meaningful discussion in most of the rest of this thread. That's polarization. It's not like posting slanted articles at each other will stop that.