We have to return to free speech and the exchange of free ideas. Banning people for having opposing viewpoints is a big step backwards. If you disagree with someone, hear them out and then explain why your idea is better.
free speech is a principle that the government can't silence you. it never meant that other people have to listen to you or care what you say.
Governments are notoriously powerful and prone to censorship, but private groups like corporations and busybody neighborhoods can also be heavy handed and net harmful.
I understand the emotional reaction. I don't understand how nominally rational people don't overrule their collective id on this one.
There's no compromise on either side, why talk about different points of view, if you are not going to change your mind.
Thank the removal of earmarks and Citizens United for that.
Legislators are dependent on those sweet PAC dollars (or more critically, dependent on someone else not getting them) in order to get re-elected and without an earmark to bring home to your district to please your voters with you can't risk losing goodwill with the party elites who control the purse strings by breaking from the party.
I didn't vote for either presidential candidate last time around especially because of the us-versus-them attitudes all around. Pretending folks like me don't exist isn't going to improve our culture.
Over the last 10 years, only one side has been consistent in blocking and denying compromise to the other. The Democrats, sadly, naively, keep trying for compromise because they haven't yet quite grasped what's going on (although it finally seems to be filtering through - the Republicans are never going to compromise.)