Wolf summed it up well;

It's endemic to the forum, regardless of the team.

Naw...Wolf threw out a sophomoric taunt aimed at people who were complaining about someone she agrees (or sides) with. We weren't complaining because we are afraid of him or his position (although, I have to admit people who think like merc does in his posts are dangerous). We were complaining about his incivility.

I disagree. :)

*shrug*

;)

I think Jinx was handing you a straight-line.

What? I meant exactly what I posted.

Eventually all of you will despise Obama as much as we do, and we'll all love one another again.

Common enemies do that to a people.

It was not sophomoric. I have a Master's Degree!!

And it was a general, not specific comment. Jinx is correct.

Then Pico missed an excellent opportunity to rebut with a little humor.

"I am very sorry you guys are scared of people with whom you don't agree."

"Actually we're not afraid. We don't like his incivility"

"I disagree"

"And I ain't skeered".


And.... I've just killed the frog.

Hopkin?!

And that is exactly the problem. You don't just disagree with his philosophy or his proposed legislation, you despise HIM, and by extension everyone who voted for him. Nothing but hate coming from the disloyal opposition.

I used to enjoy participating in some of those intense political debates. I liked learning more about what I was arguing about, while searching for back-up material.

But then a few of the folks would just lose their minds and start flinging too much poo for my taste.

It really wasn't that much fun anymore once the "you're stupid!" or "you're an idiot!" or "shut up you fucking hippie!" or "you are obviously ignorant and let filthy communists fuck you up the ass!' (paraphrased) comments would come into play.

Same here. There's just too much heavy lifting separating the wheat from the chaff. 1 or 2 informative posts on either side of a position mixed in with a dozen 'nyah nyah' posts.

BTW, I've been keeping it a secret until now and it's still in the development stage, but I am working on the world's first triple entendre. Prepare to be amazed.;)

And that was my point when I announced I had had enough and was going nasty. The problem was so many (ie you) condoned the nastiness by remaining quiet. Hitler discovered nastiness works. As long as he made German politics nasty, the majority went silent. Left politics (and government) to be controlled only by extremists.

That is also the political agenda of Limbaugh and Beck. Make things nasty so that centrist and moderate politician lose their primary supporters (due to disgust as being expressed by you).

Because so many (ie a large number of posters in this thread) choose to go quiet (ie leave), then they encouraged nasty extremists to be even nastier.

But then I am only repeating what I posted previously. Do not consider yourself innocent. Silence is how you condone the nastiness.