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Indeed, and moreover they cancel each other out.
Only in their rhetoric, which is at most weakly correlated with their actual policy decisions.
Pure theater. Enjoy the show. Think of it as the Status Olympics, which occur every four years along with the summer games.
They don't exactly cancel out. I think that brains tend to use "these things cancel out" as an excuse to do less thinking.
Yes, but in this case, the rhetoric matters. I believe this was Stuart's point. If we want to raise the "sanity waterline", then, all else being equal, saner political dialog is a good thing. Right?
oxymoron.
No, sane political dialog is an oxymoron. Saner political dialog isn't, just as "bigger shrimp" isn't.