Is there any issue more important this election year than restoring civility to politics?

areasofmyexpertise:

Yes. The answer is EVERY ISSUE.

The idea that political discourse, particularly in an election year, was EVER civil is the most delusional nostalgia. 

That is all. 

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I’m guessing this wouldn’t have been as big of a hit if TED had just released it normally instead of censoring it… perhaps a deliberate strategy?

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New Ben Folds Five: Do It Anyway.

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The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
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We conclude, therefore, that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company.
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