Everyone's Facebook stream in the US is now littered with friend's political posts. I do not mind original, thoughtful, researched, fair, and coherent political posts even if they are for the party I do not lean towards. In fact I'd welcome original, thoughtful, researched, fair, and coherent posts about the opposing point-of-view. How else can I learn, and maybe even shift my position? Instead, what I mostly see are regurgitation from the propaganda machines on each side. Posts are too often not sourced at all, or sourced from such a highly partisan site as to be utterly worthless. Too many political arguments can be blown out of the water with ten seconds of Googling. That does not make me feel warm and fuzzy about the merits of that person's views. It saddens me to constantly be reminded to for too many Americans, they regard themselves as Patriots for supporting their party before their country. And regard those in the other party as traitors, not mere