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.

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

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

Whats different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. Its all part of the suffocating spin cycle were in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.