Heath care reform debate: What is this really saying about us?

Over the weekend I’ve listened to more of the town hall meetings - rancorous, hysterical and filled with bitterness- and read more and more of the comments in the foreign press by citizens of countries with some form of national health care. The difference between the comment threads ‘here’ and ‘there’ is both amazing and depressing. Here: laced with obscenity, personal attacks and free of actual issue related content. There: civil, well reasoned, thoughtful.

What’s going on? It all seems to point to some disturbing possibilities about us, as Americans, and our ability to self govern.

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