(wrote this a few years ago but it's even more relevant today)
Let’s face it; we don’t agree. I don’t like you, and you don’t like me. I think you’re a fool and your facts are wrong. You think I’m a ****** plotting for a Red Dawn. I think you’re a bigot and big hypocrite. You think I’m know-it-all who doesn’t know ****. I think you’ve never read a book by a scholar. You think I never worked hard for a dollar. I think your pundits' attacks are ad hominems-- you think I use those big words so I can condescend. I wish we could debate, but we’d have to stick to facts-- facts get lost when someone always has to grind their axe. Emotions tend to undermine a rational debate-- it’s hard to listen and to learn when what you like to do is hate.