We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.