Reply #33: If you were planning on complete disassociation... [View All]

[casus belli]

I think you're fooling yourself. The trick to being able to stomach a conversation with Republicans is making a real effort to find the common ground. Unless the person is completely irrational, there will always be SOMETHING that you can find that you agree on. It's those grey areas that are vital to change. That common ground is a very powerful place where real understanding has a chance to flourish. The trouble with the polarization of our political climate by 8 years of Bush has been a diminishing of that grey area. I see in Obama a real chance to make a path toward a new discourse in this country. Hillary may be capable of that as well, but Obama has a level of sincerity that is unmatched by any of the other candidates in my opinion.

On that we may have to agree to disagree, I realize. But, I think we can both agree that four more years of a Republican White House will do nothing to forward a progressive agenda in this country and throughout the world.