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Sadly, the future doesn’t look any brighter. The education of our future political and journalistic leaders is being corrupted by a similarly biased group, professors! Our universities are filled with such cesspools of liberal bias that many of today’s professors seem more intent on philosophical indoctrination than teaching or learning. Some so much so they refuse to offer letters of recommendations to student’s whose views they do not share. To be fair, we would prefer to balance this critique of left-wing extremism in our places of higher learning with examples of the same on the right, we simply cannot find any.  Shame on the left.

In this recent example of a candidate now Congressman body slamming a reporter, even if the reporter was annoying the living hell out of a candidate for public office, when nobody seems to be outraged that a reporter gets body slammed, something is deeply wrong with our political system. While the reporter may wish to temper his own ways of pursuing an interview in the future, as even elected officials have a limited right and expectation of some privacy, there is nothing that can justify or explain the need to physically touch or harm, much less body slam anyone in our political process.

Given this terrible long and slow turn of events away from civility, perhaps both parties should realize what lies ahead and agree to ratchet down the volume. Now, should it get to the point of fisticuffs again, perhaps each party involved in the disagreement could instead agree to do a controlled boxing or MMA match with the proceeds going to charity? At least we’ll see who is willing to own up to their rhetoric, avoid sucker punches and raise money for charity at the same time. Such may be the modern way to settle squabbles deserving of resolution that oral debate cannot quell. We fear that if somebody doesn’t take a civilized approach to things, the only way to return civility to politics is the Hamilton and Burr method. Formal and refined as duelling may have been for its time, somehow, we think we can do better.  If we fail in the quest to return to a more civil approach to our discord, we fear that the real winner may well be anarchy in America.  If that does not scare you, watch the evening news World Report for Venezuela to see what can happen in 20 years to a once-great nation.