What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.