We need a major change.

[barbara]

The first change I would like to see is a return to decency. Since when is ok for adults to tweet garbage and call their opponents names? We have to end the bipartisanship where each side digs in their heels and won't consider compromise. It's time our elected officials start acting like adults.

[Human]

Originally Posted by barbara

The first change I would like to see is a return to decency. Since when is ok for adults to tweet garbage and call their opponents names? We have to end the bipartisanship where each side digs in their heels and won't consider compromise. It's time our elected officials start acting like adults.

I'm not saying it's entirely new behavior, but we can thank Newt Gingrich for a lot of the name calling:

"Gingrich encouraged them to go after their enemies with catchy, alliterative nicknames—“Daffy Dukakis,” “the loony left”—and schooled them in the art of partisan blood sport. Through gopac, he sent out cassette tapes and memos to Republican candidates across the country who wanted to “speak like Newt,” providing them with carefully honed attack lines and creating, quite literally, a new vocabulary for a generation of conservatives. One memo, titled “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control,” included a list of recommended words to use in describing Democrats: sick, pathetic, lie, anti-flag, traitors, radical, corrupt."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...elcome/570832/