THE HATE CULTURE
Cyberia has an increasingly negative culture

Culture is hardly something Cyberia focuses on. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Cyberian culture is turning negative, personal, ugly, and unattractive.

Since Rosario and Thacker went at it over trade unions and workers' rights, our debates regarding anything, including public policy, has turned into bitter, negative, personal assaults that have little to do with what we are proposing and its effects on the country.

Take the Hickey-Kerns debate over a broadly-based center-left party. After briefly saying that it might be a bad idea, Hickey slapped the President with an accusation that he was being an opportunist. The President that accused Hickey of being power hungry and not able to stand being in the same party with anyone remotely as powerful as he is. This showed that neither person was interested in convincing the other that his side was best, instead they were eager to argue about each other's character.

This is a problem that may turn many potentially good citizens away from Cyberia. Also, it may keep us from doing the job of improving Cyberia and sharpening our policy debating skills, which is crucial for the younger generation whom are using Cyberia as practice for the real thing down the road.