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In reply to the discussion: Some of here sometimes feel Unwelcome. Even many of us who were here back..Way Back [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)As have a shitload of responses in this thread.
Some love to claim that they are being "bullied" and "silenced" when a 12 second perusal of this forum will show you EXACTLY who is doing the bullying. The insults are flung so fast and loose from some here, and then these same folks five minutes later will be wondering why NO ONE LISTENS TO THEM. And especially not those in power.
As for your "scoring points" part, you are absolutely right. The recs are the game here, but the post from Yavin4 a week or so ago asking forthrightly why the American left has had so little success in getting progressives in office elicited far more intelligent responses than this whining OP although, shockingly!! (
) the whining one is the one with the higher number of recs.
And we need to accept that just because someone comes to a different conclusion than us they are not stupid.
Not stupid, not evil and most importantly, may not even be WRONG. There is a reason that moderates run the world. And the folks flinging "Third Way" and "corporatist" at everyone from their dilapidated towers of dust prove that every single day.
The country is changing for the better, and the demographics are now on our side. But we can't do diddly squat if we don't win elections!