This will be a short diary, because hopefully most of the action will take place in the comments. I'm asking that you take yourself back to when you were four years old and relive that period in your life when the most frequent question was, "Why?" But in a slightly more complex way than, "Why are you leaving? Why do you gotta go to the store?
I'm asking that we all - pragmatists, idealists, Obamabots, purity trolls, rich, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Jewish, Christian, Athiest, WHATEVER - talk about not how we think of politics but why we think of politics that way. I'm asking for an honest discussion, one where we're not trying to convince anyone, we're just trying to talk to each other and understand each other. Every other diary can be the place for vindictive speech and flame wars if you want it that way, but here let's try to understand why we disagree.
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