Belilnda

I appreciate what you are saying in your last couple of comments. You are expressing and sounding like, what the conservative posters used to complain about during the elections, feeling that the left side of the aisle was giving them hell all the time, and calling them names, calling them stupid, ignorant, and many more very degrading terms.  I have been here almost a year so I have seen it all.  If they crossed our poster who changes her name and identity all the time, she would barrage them with angry posts calling them skanks and many other low names.  She used a few derogatory terms and called someone a dog.  All the time, and that was before the 10 commandments so she wasn’t deleted. Others came on and did the same.  It was seldom that they took the issue that was being spoken about and questioned the argument in an intelligent way.  To either bring light to an idea with clear thinking, or test an idea with logical questions.  The conservatives used to mostly play fair, and after Palin got dubbed with so many unkind epithets, they got tired of it and now that there are a few more, they hang together in arguments, just like the liberals did with them.  They used to be attacked from all sides by the liberals, now they are using the same tactics.  I don’t agree with it, but we have had some pretty solid visitors who really knew how to fight. Many tried to get along, but could not cross the ideological divide.  It is hard.  We are who we are.

I don’t like the angry posts.  To me they are just a waste of time, but I learned it takes two to tango, and it takes reactive posts to keep reactionary posts going.  I don’t agree with many of the things said, and I am disappointed in it.  The ideas from the far reaches of each political persuasion will never meet.  They will never meet.  They have become too diametrically opposed. 

You said you invited some of your conservative friends, well some of the conservatives, early on, invited some of their friends, and the liberals were very negative so the new conservatives would come on every so often and say, I was going to try this, but it is too negative.  

It seems to me we are representative of the sentiments in the nation.  When something swings too far to the right and big mistakes are made, the country then swings far to the left and then vice versa.  The pendulum used to have a very wide swing, that took longer to manifest it’s reactions, but now, with all the talking heads and the 24 hour news cycle, and the internet, the reaction is quicker and we have less time to adjust and recoup. 

I grew up in a home that had many foster children from very diverse situations, races and ethnic groups.  Kids are great at sarcasm and put down and the only way we could all get along was to have certain rules, and my mom called us on the carpet when we didn’t.  

In that household one of the most important lessons was to not make negative personal comments about anyone or what they believed in. Those included anything that had to do with ideology, body, mind or spirit.  It was amazing, once a new kid got the hang of it, it gave them freedom to be themselves.  It also helped to develop self-esteem in both parties.  

I haven’t read all the comments the right has been calling the left, but crazy left wingers came up, and Kool aid drinkers, and many other terms that insinuated stupidity.  I think being called rabid right wingers and wingnuts, or kool aid drinkers and crazy left wingers, holds the same vicious power.  It is a waste of time and the divide is just getting wider.