I'm actually fairly moderate. For instance I support gay "marriage" I support a minimum wage increase. Etc etc.
I also think there are quite a few conservative morons on this site.
But at the moment I'm speaking to the liberal idiot Lakhota who lies, is a racist, is stupid, and just generally needs to shut the **** up.
I think the best way is to let them stick their feet in their own mouths.
Let them talk until they trip themselves up, like hanging by their own ropes.
I find that if I give people room to untangle themselves, they will eventually.
And when it's my turn, people are just as gracious with me.
Sadly , I must wonder if this board is representative of our society in general. Tell any lie, make up any facts, ignore any reality, just to make a political point???
It's like good news bad news.
It is like practice or therapy for learning how to express and resolve grievances we have about the world.
The bad news is there is this learning curve, and the free speech brings out the worst sides sometimes.
The good news is that we are throwing word bombs and not using real weapons to attack each other.
If we can hash out our differences civilly, even with the hostile name calling and emotions attached,
there is hope for the real world. We can use each other here for practice in resolving issues,
not just target practice for venting.
In general our citizenry does need to learn how to spell out and resolve our grievances,
and communicate UNIFIED solutions we all agree on, if we are going to instruct our govt leaders
what policies to make or to change.
If we keep fighting and don't even agree among each other, the politicians take advantage
and use that conflict to sell themselves as the solution. Why not bypass the politics,
come up with our own solutions directly, feed that through our parties and get that into govt?
We the people need to be in charge, not playing the victim card complaining we are helpless.
So that is what I see we could and should be using these internet groups and forums to do:
organize solutions across party lines, write up the proposed corrections, and present these
to govt officials so they have clear marching orders from the people who hire them
on what kind of legislation we agree should be passed.