Civility

I was noticing a change in rudeness as far back at 2006. Does this mean that there has not actually been any recent change, that online behavior almost inevitably promotes a deterioration in discourse, or that the recent change I have been noticing is just the modern tendency to rudeness because of no accountability simply penetrating deeper into society, including people who used to be polite?

BTW, that post includes a comment from Copithorne, who had trouble staying on the topic, as usual.

In my post "Not Their Tribe," I suggested there was some alternative motive which partly explains why the A & H Tribe is not supporting OIF. They might be loyal only to their own tribe, and not America as a whole, perhaps. I don't leap from this to say that they are traitors, or cowards, or selfish. Each of those, while possible, would require high levels of evidence. An actual traitor might well hide behind the principle of freedom to criticize the government. A real coward might adopt religious pacifism as a cover. But this does not mean that all who criticize the government are traitors, nor that all religious pacifists are cowards.