The title of this post comes from an article I read in the Cleveland Plain Dealer while visiting my parents last month. I think that the writer nails what is going on in our country right now. I am trying very hard to not dismiss people on "the other side" although they sure can make it hard sometime. The truth is that demonizing any group is not productive in making things better since neither "side" can really do that without help and assistance from each other.
This is how the article starts:
Raising her voice above the jeers and catcalls, the woman at the microphone tries to stay calm, telling the crowd that the co-pay for her medication is now $389 every two weeks.
"I live in fear every day," she says, "that I will lose my home."
The heckling -- a mix of boos, shouts and mock-pity "awwws" -- reaches a crescendo, like maybe the crowd at this New Jersey town hall meeting can't see through the haze of rage to realize that she is about to cry, this woman in a wheelchair.
Welcome to political discourse 2009.
Take a look at the rest of this article if you'd like.
Mark
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