The issues that need to be addressed are scattered widely. Forget the politics. Americans can't even be bothered to be decent to each other anonymously. How sick is that?
Without resorting to attacks on character, creed, or conscience, even family, it would seem there's nothing to say. The very substance of intelligent debate is lost. It seems we've taken cues from politics, forfeiting credibility for social acceptance. This sort of thing would have been ignored into silence ten years ago. What's going on when people hate from all sides, just to fit in?
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You make a good point here. There's nothing like getting an anonymous diss from someone with the audacity to call you out but who is too spineless to identify themselves. It's like sort of being a Gator fan, but REALLY, REALLY hating FSU - passion based on negativity rather than something positive you believe in and would fight for. It's probably been going on longer than we think, the political mudslinging, but the Internet has brought all of this home to us to mimic what we see our leaders do within the confines of our own homes, where we don't have to look into someone's face and say, "Hey, you suck if you think _____". It's cowardly.
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