Why Support Civility?
Why support civility? How about because thirty years of increasing partisan rancor and discord have left America as a nation disunited and our government dysfunctional? How about because the politics of joy Hubert Humphrey could proclaim five decades ago has been replace by the politics of blame and disdain, living political processes paralyzed from local to national and leaving communities unable to come together to deal with real needs and concerns. How about because rising levels of incivility in our civic discourse (recognized in both polls and empirical research) does nothing to promote the general welfare and is actively destructive to domestic tranquility. How about because We, the People have an obligation to ourselves and each other to treat each other with respect in pursuit of a more perfect union? Pick a reason –they’re all good. Now, if those reasons are good enough for you to decide to support improving Civility in our Civic Discourse, what are you going to do about it?
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
Incivility can not be treated like the weather, with everyone complaining about it but no-one doing anything about it.