Atheists & Agnostics

when I hear some pandering tool talk about the big tent we democrats have where all are welcome to enter and join in honest discussions about our diverse natures and our differing views I realize it's actually just pandering and absolutely without merit.

Every group has some distaste for dissent, but there are times when I believe there is an echo chamber mentality in some groups where if you miss your cue and forget the echo you are in the deep water and quite alone...no big tent, no welcoming handshake, just a breath away from perma-ban and good riddance to your dissent filled viewpoint.

Makes me think about the greatest generation, Ike's boys those democrats and republicans who fought the Nazis and the Rising Sun's attempts to enslave the world and knew that you often had to find commonality with those you don't see eye to eye in order to get important work done. They knew needlessly belittling or antagonizing didn't advance the dialogue and they knew that their opponents were also their countrymen.

Now each party hates the other and within each party disparate elements also hate each other. Instead of that big melting pot of assimilation we are dividing into factions of single issue blowhards who can't find commonality among their supposedly own kind.

No wonder we are where we are....