Jesse Walker has a modest proposal for dealing with all the partisan robots who make intelligent political discussion so difficult:
The folks who spent the campaign saying Halliburton is a front for NAMBLA
are now muttering that they're ashamed to be Americans and want to join
Canada. The folks who spent the campaign fretting that John Kerry is a
sleeper agent for the Viet Cong are now claiming that they're the only
"real" Americans and, in general, confusing "51%" with "98%." In a
classic illustration of the thesis that you eventually become the thing
you most hate, the Kerrybots are now terrified, resentful, and convinced
that the culture is poisoned; the Bushbots are smug,
self-congratulatory, and as condescending when they discuss the coasts
as a Hollywood producer deriding "flyover country."
