What if we augment the Town Hall Health Care meetings with online forums where experts, partisans and citizens can partake in an exchanges mediated by text.  That is to say that physical and emotional attacks are automatically moderated by one dimensional screens and the words that people type on them.

Debate is great and is fundamental to democracy, but perhaps the media's over-attention  to drama is hurting our democracy's ability to focus on the substance of the debate.

Online forums could help.