re: #211 MsJ

My greatest fear. Until they stand up to Fox and Rush, et al, we can never have a country like we once had. You cannot block everything year after year after year, demonize your opponents, all that, and expect politics as usual to continue.

Damn, we had a good run. If they don’t fix this shit poste haste, I don’t see sustaining a country. You can’t have it where half the country is absolutely nuts, believes every CT out there, hates the other half and sustain that. You just can’t.

I think it’s about time for a prominent Democrat to revisit Lincoln’s House Divided speech.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half rational and half irrational. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of irrational bigotry will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become customary in all the States.