• tal@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    If the Republican Party and the Democratic Party want to propose and agree on some basic rules for discussion, that might be worth consideration.

    It’s not gonna be perfect, because they can’t bind the public. But I can at least imagine there being a set of conventions for more civil public discourse that would improve the situation.

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      2 days ago

      If the Republican Party and the Democratic Party want to propose and agree on some basic rules for discussion, that might be worth consideration.

      They did, decades ago.

      And the Democrats are still mostly abiding by those.

      The Republicans, on the other hand…