To forum of Huffington Post upon reading several pages.

I've been reading comment streams on news forums.

Rough-shod attempts to destroy opposing opinion and eloquent pronouncements of omipotent comprehension in disdain of lesser minds incapable of grasping the lofty concepts of (position of choice here _____) abound.
Unacceptable.
I relish intelligent, rational, and intuitive discussion. Passionate, yet focussed, and tactful argument has often been the inspiration for positive change in my life, but where has the tact gone?
I had hoped empathy and understanding would result from the exchange of ideas between dissimilar viewpoints but fear the invective preceding the epiphany may amount to hatred. Some alarming language in forum from Americans, about Americans moved me to comment.
I don't want to come off sanctimonious, so at the risk of being burned both figuratively and in effigy for syntax and/or grammatical errors I'm sure I've made I thought someone should call to our collective attention that we've become horribly self-destructive just now, and now may not be the best time for that. : )

From one Huffington Post article's Comments Section on the Tea Party Protestors Drown Out CNN Reporter:

Sub-human, idiots, slobbering, mindless, maoist, southern hick, ignorant, Lilly White Teabagger. I could go on.

I think many a thesis, documentary, and study will be done on how badly we behaved and how terribly we denegrated our fellow citizens over the travesty that is our socio-political system.
One question for everyone though. Why the hell are we fighting EACHOTHER?
None of what is happening in politics right now actually applies to governance and we all know it. We're all mad as hell about it, but that doesn't mean we should drink the divisive cool-aid (misspelled for trademark purposes) and execute a suicide of the Republic. The sum of its parts should be the execution of our collective will, not the will of a collection of representatives who've figured out how to completely cripple the system.
Smoke, mirrors, and no small amount of distraction from reality bear no resemblance to governance. Without some galvanizing event to unite people against corruption, tyranny, and rampant neglect, we have no power to change things. It is our civic duty to inform ourselves of how the process works to effect our desires legally. If the process breaks, we have to fix it.

Please take a moment to consider whom you are trying to impress when you deprecate your countrymen. Whom are you attempting to persuade? Persuasion doesn't require the flourish so evident in these posts, and is more effective without chumming the water with the corpses of felled opponents. Why play to a chorus of agreement? Which is more difficult and admirable?
Introduce innovative solutions and improve the world around you as you can. Rants and polemnic diatribe only remind us all that we've not yet mastered our flaws. They render brilliant minds ineffectual and allow the simplest criminals to manipulate our lives. In the heat of the moment, our behavior mirrors the problem we've allowed to perpetuate at our Capitol, and that does not bode well for any of us...