The Sideshow goes to
the heart of the debate on how meanspirited the political debate has become:
Conservatives have promoted one overwhelming Big Lie that contains all the others, and that is that liberals are too far left for the mainstream, thus obscuring the fact that liberals, by and large, are the mainstream. Theocrats complain that liberals are immoral while deriding what is largely a manifestation of mainstream Christian morality as “political correctness”. Robber baron-style grafters pretend that universal health care is some kind of communist plot despite the fact that most Americans actually support such a program.
Which brings us to the crux of the matter. Liberals aren’t trying to be “meaner” than conservatives. For conservatives, obscuring the arguments has been the point of all this meanness. What liberals are trying to do is to bring us back to the truth.