The whole idea of good-faith disagreement among political combatants has pretty much gone the way of the mimeograph machine.Talk about history. Used mimeo masters were black and gooey, hard to store. And mimeo paper was porous, impossible to write on with a fountain pen.
Remember the ditto machine and the purple-on-white copies it made? Its activating fluid was some sort of alcohol; a stack of fresh copies smelled good but probably rotted our brains.
