Rational discourse starts with concessions to the other person's viewpoints. This requires certain levels of validity to the opposing point of view and the ability of the holder of that viewpoint to recognize the same in mine/yours/the first person's/whatever.
Health care reform, pay equality, gay rights, taxation, abortion and more. People willing to have rational discourse on these issues are not the ones driving the debate, and are also just too damned nice to the opposition thereby committing the grievous sin of being too boring for TV. As such, we will not see a rational discourse on any of these. Ever.
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