This is so obvious it shouldn't need to be said. But it does

[Tom Rinaldo]

For all those talking heads and politicos of any stripe who decry the "increasing lack of civility" in our politics, as well as all those who also decry the so called "tribiization" of politics in contemporary America today...

May I respectfully ask them all to shut the fuck up unless they are willing to start out their litany of concerns with an overt condemnation of the current occupant of the Oval Office for his non stop fierce campaigning against the majority of the electorate who voted against him in 2016? If pundits refuse to lead with how absolutely unAmerican it is for the person elected to represent the people as a whole to characterize his legitimate political opposition as "evil", they have nothing of any value to say. Period: turn the page, change the channel.

In 2005 Ann Coulter published "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must). If You Must which virtually screams out that liberals are not worth talking to unless one is forced to. Lack of civility? Tribalization of politics? Put the blame where it belongs and then, maybe, we can engage in a meaningful conversation about what is wrong with American politics. That is, after America rids itself of a President who tries to hold onto and consolidate power by ,for all practical purposes, declaring war on half of America.

[Tom Rinaldo]

1. First time getting dozens of R's without a comment...

I'm just pissed off at the new media obsession with Red and Blue political "tribalism" and a "lack of civility" while failing to point out that the right has been been waging a political war on "liberals" for decades as the "tribe" they wanted politically exterminated, while the likes of Rush Limbaugh were happily building their ratings by pushing a conspiracy theory that the Clintons killed Vance Foster. And now "the Commander In Chief" says that "anyone who votes for a Democrat is crazy."

We weren't the ones who have actively poisoned the well

[niyad]

2. they ust start by mea culpas for their contributions to this lack of civility.

[Wounded Bear]

3. They're about 20-30 years late...

while they were reporting on horse races, the RW echo chamber has been flinging mud-and worse-and put the bully in bully pulpit.