Being Reasonable Is Not An Option

PRESIDENT OBAMA SAVES THE WORLD, or at least extends its life a bit, makes it safer for democracy, greatly alleviates the threat of widespread war in the middle east by forcing the Iranians, through the sheer force of his effective diplomacy, to forsake nuclear weapons. Either that, or, Obama sells out to Iran, opening the door to future Iranian nuclear arms development, making Israel's safety a most precarious matter. The choice is yours. Your opinion counts too, on social media if nowhere else, and the more extreme the better. Heaven forbid that any American citizen should be accused of moderate, reasonable, and balanced thinking; extremism, polarization is the order of the day. Either or. All or nothing. The more dramatic the better, and, by all means, take a selfie and post it alongside your screaming, grammatically butchered rhetoric. You would think that millions of intelligent people would be able to sit down, do a little reading, find out exactly what's in the new treaty with Iran, and develop a rational response to it, free of extremist rhetoric. But no, that would be too much to ask. It wouldn't attract enough attention on twitter, wouldn't antagonize anyone, so, why bother? Benjamin Franklin said: "Compromisers don't make good heroes, but they make good democracies." Compromise, with anyone else, or moderation of personal opinion, is simply no longer an option in America, as it must once have been. We must all be heroes, and to hell with democracy!