Whether you’re apathetic, emphatic, or absolutely effing nuts, presidential elections bring the fundamental differences that we have with one another to the surface even more so than usual. The common ground that is left between us is eroded and washed away by the flood of polarizing bipartisan rhetoric that pushes our political extremes even farther away from one another. Maybe this is why liberals and conservatives shout at one another, because it is hard to hear one another from opposite poles of the political spectrum. Moderates--that elusive species that seems to be going the way of the Siberian snow leopard--can still hear one another with out having to raise their voices. Ironically, it seems to be our society’s ability to communicate with more ease than this world has ever seen before that is contributing to the nastiness of our presidential elections. Social media is most definitely exacerbating the decline of civility in American politics. Right now on Facebook, I hav