2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Why won’t Obama voters `break up’ with him?" by Greg Sargent at WP [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)one another and interact on the issues like citizens would. However, because of our current culture, that's difficult, because we're so often in the position of saying something more or less TTE, "You don't know what you're talking about" without insulting someone.
All of us are more or less uninformed, or outright ignorant, but the difference between opinion and knowledge no longer appears to be significant. If only discussions could begin with the recognition of that difference and if opinions were owned PERSONALLY as opinions, so that knowledge might stand a chance of being independently valued for what it is, we would stand a chance of relating to our elected representation as peers, rather than as ill-tempered, spoiled children, or bullies.