Wild West Politics?

smoothmoniker · 01-08-2011, 10:45 PM

This is absurd in the extreme. Should we blame J.D. Salinger for what a handful of nut-jobs did after reading his work?

The rhetoric of politics as war is at least as old as Pericles, and it has been used by every party, in every election, in every country in the world. This time, there happened to be a graphic.

Should politics be more civil? Maybe, although it never has been. But that's not what this discussion is about. That is a red herring. This is about one radical violent person who did something abhorrent, and to make political hay out of it is sickening.

01-08-2011, 10:45 PM	#11
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	This is absurd in the extreme. Should we blame J.D. Salinger for what a handful of nut-jobs did after reading his work? The rhetoric of politics as war is at least as old as Pericles, and it has been used by every party, in every election, in every country in the world. This time, there happened to be a graphic. Should politics be more civil? Maybe, although it never has been. But that's not what this discussion is about. That is a red herring. This is about one radical violent person who did something abhorrent, and to make political hay out of it is sickening. __________________ to live and die in LA

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