The Right Intends to Destroy the Nation and the Left Doesn't Believe It

When Conflict Gets Impersonally Personal
Tom H. Hastings, Truthout: "A dissensual (the opposite of consensual) conflict (over values, worldviews, the perceived nature of the parties) tends to regardthe other party as the basic problem and so problem solving becomes 'how do we annihilate them?'.. This is tough for many of us, especially those steeped from an early age in dissensual and adversarial conflict. I struggle not to regard people like Mitch McConnell, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Rupert 'The Buck Stops Here and Then Moves Back Down' Murdoch and Sarah Palin as the problem."