Knowing that there are different beliefs held by different people and attempting to work together for the common good anyway, is what I think divides the left from the right, and gives the majority of those who identify themselves as either a liberal or a democrat the moral high ground in the current political arena.
And in life.
We police ourselves, and as a whole we try to the best of our ability to marginalize those in our party that take positions of extremism and replace their inflaming rhetoric with facts and reason.
All while desperately trying to combat the rhetoric and inciting tactics that the right wing has become so adept at propagating.
What ever our faults may be, I can't imagine us ever being as crazy as these barely cognizant nutjobs...
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