There was indeed a time when great thinkers, great patriots, and impassioned citizens would sit in opposition, but ... more

There was indeed a time when great thinkers, great patriots, and impassioned citizens would sit in opposition, but as reasonable men do with a desire to digest every conceivable aspect of an issue and debate in the interest of progress. We have traded the reason and sublime intellect behind the art of debate for the utter castigation and character assassination of anyone who takes an opposing position. Those before us, who took up the art of debate as a life mission, left us an incredible legacy - our strength, our pride, our Constitution, our democracy. How silly and ineffectual we would seem to them if they could see us now.