"Perverse Polarity" by Paul Glastris

This has been the modus operandi of Rush Limbaugh since day one. Demonize the Democratic party, I would posit that he would like nothing else other than actual physical violence. But not from Rush, cause we all know he is a flat out chicken shit.



"Perverse Polarity" by Paul Glastris: "When the Republicans took over Congress in 1995, the polarization began to get even worse. In Reagan's time there still remained a strong sense in Washington that politics was not purely a zero-sum game between the parties. Democrats and Republicans shared certain goals in common--sometimes high-minded goals such as getting rid of loopholes in the tax code, and sometimes tawdry ones, such as protecting incumbents, but shared goals all the same. But fierce partisanship and demonization of the Democratic majority had helped the GOP take back Congress. (Then-Rep. Newt Gingrich once distributed a memo to his colleagues specifying which words to use when describing Democrats, from 'corruption, crises, decay, deeper, destroy, destructive, devour' to 'self-serving, sensationalists, shallow, sick.') Emboldened, the new GOP majority set out to systematically eliminate what remained of the capital's bipartisan political culture."