Is this what passes for discourse today?

I see people getting positively rabid about unions, yet know little about them. I see people foaming at the mouth at what they perceive as the Obama’s ‘excessive’ perks, while ignoring that the office has not exactly been penurious in the past. I see so much of what could be credibly called just plain hypocrisy, yet where is the call for ‘civility’?

I know that civility is more or less BS, that the history of politics has been worse in the past than now, but… if one thinks that it is called for, then it needs to either be applied across the board, or not at all.

Why is this accepted? Why is it that one side doing what the other is excoriated for acceptable?

I mean, I know, but it is sad to say the least how many simply ignore the issue, so that they can try to make points off some issue or another, blindly following the lead given, making a bad situation worse, all in the name of partisan politics.

Let me be clear, I am a moderate conservative, but it is getting embarrassing, with come of the literal crap that some are spewing, venting their spleen with some pretty substandard logic, presenting themselves as some sort of real ‘conservative viewpoint’.

So often misquoted and misunderstood, Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Self-Reliance", wrote that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Consistency is not, but that is so often overlooked in the rush to try to castigate others, while making oneself look foolish in the process.

To be consistent requires that we look less at party than principle, and that seems to be anathema nowadays. Neither party seems to be able to toe the line of doing what they profess, yet each is given pardon after pardon by voters, assuming that they even notice the discrepancies.

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." – H.L Mencken

Democrat or Republican, this still applies today…