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[andrewducker]

PJ O'Rourke talks in his typical amusing style here about how pundits on boths sides of the fence have stopped trying to persuade and are now playing to their existing audiences.

Have the political parties stopped trying to persuade each other and started to merely preach to their own crowd?

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[dragonscholar.livejournal.com]

I'd pretty much agree. Everyone's preaching to the choir, and soon (if not already), it's chior versus chior. No common ground, no reason to work for it.

For me, a person who is what I like to call a left-wing libertarian (since it screws with people's heads, and it deals with the fact that I'm for minimalist government, but in some cases you need some extensive government), no one's trying to convince me. Everyone's yelling at me one way or another.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't know how long this has been the case, it probably predates the era of lucrative talk radio. However, witht he money and attention given talk radio nad political news, the volume (if not the timbre) of the debate has been amplified. Just plum pathetic. That said, its fun belonging to Libertarianism, Conservatism, and Liberal.

[adders.livejournal.com]

Yes, they have. You're spot on.

And last time I made an observation along that line, someone defriended me in a huff. You brave soul, you. :-)

[andrewducker]

I've been defriended in a huff once or twice.

But never by anyone whose opinion I cared about :->