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Your observations are precise and intelligent. I'd like to add another. For whatever reason, people adore being negative. And they have a tendency to exaggerate. Put the two together and there is an exaggeration of the negative, which may or may not be entirely valid. I learned a long time ago that people will be negative long before they are positive, as if they get some sort of reward for it. In the current hateful political climate, part of being hyperbolically negative is to blame Bush or the administration for anything and everything, and to do so with glee. So some of the negativity "out there" is due to those who will blame Republicans for whatever they can, to an unreasonable if not fictional degree, and some is due to people's pleasure at just being negative in general. The first have a stake in negativity and would never admit anything positive about Bush, Republicans, etc.
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