WSU Communication's Jack Lessenberry writes about today's approaches to dealing w/political defeat...
The Windsor Star
"Accepting defeat gracefully belongs to yesterday"
by Jack Lessenberry
John Corvino, chair of Wayne State University's Department of Philosophy, commented about the growing contentiousness surrounding political and social issues today. "I've been engaged in public debates on social issues for over 20 years, and the polarization is worse than ever," said John Corvino. He thinks this is "partly a sign of people's general insecurity, economic and otherwise. It's the old trick of making yourself feel taller by cutting off your enemy's head. "Instead of winning debates on the merits, we 'win' by making sure everybody else loses," the professor said.