Richard Longo: Can we please just turn it down a notch?

We are heading into the home stretch of what will certainly be a contentious election cycle. We will hear yelling, insults and, quite frankly, an embarrassing exhibition of our democratic process.Can we tone down the rhetoric so we have a more informed national and local debate?These thoughts are independent of the current discussions on racial injustice, which I am proud to observe have broad positive consensus. This is aimed at the tired, internecine warfare between left and right.Each of us h