'We are afflicted by an acute tendency to regard difference of opinion as defect of humanity'

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from Leonard Pitts Jr.: http://staugustine.com/opinions/2010-12-08/pitts-sick-and-tired-being-sick-and-tired-disease


Sick and tired of being sick and tired of this disease

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. . . from Rep. Michele Bachmann's claim that a presidential trip to India would cost $200 million a day to Rush Limbaugh saying the president was on the verge of outlawing fishing to Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin facing court-martial because he believes the president is foreign-born and his orders thus invalid, Obama Dementia has reached epidemic levels the last two years.

Still, it's a mistake to define this malady simply in terms of a given president. This dissonance, this divorce of rhetoric from reason from reality, says less about them than about us.

It says we are infected by a view that we are not a nation with a nation's sense of mission but a loosely affiliated collection of interests willing to do anything to advance themselves. It says we are afflicted by an acute tendency to regard difference of opinion as defect of humanity. It says we are suffering a false belief that argument is its own reward.

I have no cute name for the disorder, just one earnest wish for all of us.

Get well soon.


full article: http://staugustine.com/opinions/2010-12-08/pitts-sick-and-tired-being-sick-and-tired-disease

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