In comment #11, Post blogger Michael Brylawski wonders why the nature of debate in Aspen breeds name-calling rather than civil discourse about the things that count. “We have a very smart, ‘blue’, well-read, Paekpe-inspired populace,” Brylawski comments, “but much of our important issues and debates descend rapidly into emotion, name calling, rhetoric…
My only regrets was that the type of deep dialogue and back-and-forth that people like Wharf Rat engaged in was not more prevalent…and that the election did not become more than a simple referendum on ‘the Sheriff we know’ versus a challenger portrayed as an unethical freakshow.”