re: #321 albusteve

the parties are interchangable with regard to the original post…my point all along is that regardless of right or wrong, or principle, or conceding for the common good, the first order of business these days is to draw up lines and begin with the typical accusations…it’s both left and right, as if parties are some sort of divine club…the line must be towed, the members protected at all cost…it’s no way to govern, and not only is govt guilty but so is the electorate…it doesn’t matter to me where Thomas is ideologically to me, the question is did he break the law?…why should politics matter?

Politics shouldn’t matter, and the LA Times, while leaning left, has done plenty to expose liberals too.

You’re right about the partisan line drawing. But maybe it shouldn’t be surprising. We’ll never have the level of unity we had 70-80 years ago. The country’s population has tripled and become FAR more ethnically diverse. Also women, gays and minorities have a voice in our public discourse that didn’t exist before. And there really was no equivalent to the religiously influenced culture war back in those days. Socio-religious strife, yes. But not as a structuring element in every political issue. Sucks, we’re tribal, just with really BIG tribes.