John Stewart has annouced a rally of his own in contrast to Glenn Beck. Stewart calls his rally the rally to restore Sanity. His rally aims at the people who are often to busy to attend all the other protests because they have lives. He also stated that this rally is aimed at the people who are in the middle, people who can disagree with someone without thinking they are Hitler. I think this is a fantastic idea. I also agree that I think whoever screams the loudest gets the attention but those screamers might not represent the vast majority of Americans. I think this is the exact conversation we need to be having. I think the political rhetoric has gotten completely out of hand and gets so personal that people on each side don't want to work with the other because who would want to aid Hitler. Both the right and the left have demonized the last two presidents and made it so personal that we are coming to a point where we are too polarize to tackle the big problems facing this country. I disagreed with Bush on 98% of what he did, but I think he is a good person who just has a different worldview than me. I think when we make politics so personal it destroys the democratic process and we need to learn to disagree without being disagreeable.
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