Is it because their intellect and integrity/morality is on the line depending upon whom they support and so they will become vicious and vile to defend it whereas no one gets vicious about defending liking/disliking broccoli?
I dunno. Seems to me if we can disagree about food and cars and clothes and music and literature we ought to be able to disagree with civility about our politics.
Once upon a time in the long ago we could. That changed. Can it pendulum back to the good old days? What will it take?
