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There is an extent to which politics makes everyone a hypocrite. It's hypocritical for Conservatives to talk about "Bush Derangement Syndrome" and then compare Obama to Stalin. It is equally hypocritical for Democrats to spend eight years claiming that "dissent is patriotic" and then tell everyone to shut up and get in line two seconds after their guy wins.

This doesn't really bother me because I like arguing about politics. I overlook it. I am able to overlook it because politics is, in the grand scheme of things, about as important as the NFL. It is not a religion for me. I think the people who find political give and take distasteful are the people who look to politics for spiritual fulfillment - words like "hope" and "meaning" get tossed around. I think anybody that looks to politics to bring hope and meaning to their lives is begging to be disappinted.