Todd,
I think the last two days - since the release of the torture memos - we have all had an opportunity to see just how badly communication among people of good will, be they on the "left" or "right" broke down in the US.
For me, it was the impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton, followed by the machinations in Bush versus Gore which left me thinking the right was pure evil.
It has taken many, many years and quite a few exchanges with you, Peter H. and a dear friend of mine who is very high up in the Republican party (business interest Republican, not fundamentalist Christian interest) to convince me that not everyone on the right is, really, purely evil.
The question for me is, how do we proceed from here?
What are your feelings on all of this? Are you as appalled at the breech of Constitutional law and international treaties as I imagine you are? How do you reconcile all of this with patriotism? I am trying to move past the "it is all Bush #43 fault" mentality here and to understand what led to this situation.
If we don't come out of this able to better work together, than, truly, we are in serious trouble.