STOP THE MADNESS!!!!!

Published on January 24, 2005 By NJforever In Politics

I can't take it anymore! Every single political article I look at here somehow becomes (if it isn't already) just Rightist/Leftist propaganda as to why the other party should be driven out of the country! I am being driven insane here! None of you can seem to grasp that people can have different opinions without being evil! So, here is a little briefing for you:

People are allowed to support the president without blindly following him.

People are allowed to disagree with the president without being treasonous America-haters

People are allowed to be Republican without being wealthy and/or a bigot

People are allowed to be Democrat without being anti-america and/or a 'small-minded sheep'

Am I stopping here? Yes. Is there more? Once more, yes. Now, I know not everyone here is doing this intolerable....intolerability. And I commend everyone who isn't. But I'm sick of reading what I think is an insightful article, then have some person destroy the entire point by saying, basically, 'Liberals/conservatives are bigots!'

One more thing. Don't anyone comment here that someone else started it. I don't care who you think started it, I care who will end it.

Comments (Page 2)

Daiwa

on Jan 25, 2005

I can't take it anymore!! People posting demands that everyone be reasonable!! It's driving me crazy!! Enough, already!!

Cheers,
Daiwa

Moderateman

on Jan 25, 2005

I'm glad you said it NJforever, but I fear that everyone is too far gone and that you are preaching on deaf ears.

what??? I can't hear you,

Moderateman

on Jan 25, 2005

but of course it did dabe, and you used that as a reason to wish me dead and rot in hell.. altho I can see in dabeland thats a kind and liberal progressive opinion.

Dr Guy

on Jan 25, 2005

but of course it did dabe, and you used that as a reason to wish me dead and rot in hell.. altho I can see in dabeland thats a kind and liberal progressive opinion.

From another thread, but appropriate - does that make her a parasite?

Moderateman

on Jan 25, 2005

Reply #8 By: dabe - 1/24/2005 11:47:21 PM

Yeah, that article was one of the most hateful ones here. Then, he gets all bent out of shape when a dem responds accordingly. Loves to dish it out, but hates taking it.

yep wishing me dead and rotting in hell is so much more reasonable than me expressing an opinion about the democratic party that I was a member of for 26 years

Moderateman

on Jan 25, 2005

Reply #8 By: dabe - 1/24/2005 11:47:21 PM

Yeah, that article was one of the most hateful ones here. Then, he gets all bent out of shape when a dem responds accordingly. Loves to dish it out, but hates taking it.

yep wishing me dead and rotting in hell is so much more reasonable than me expressing an opinion about the democratic party that I was a member of for 26 years

Gideon MacLeish

on Jan 25, 2005

Frankly, I think both Republicans and Democrat have abandoned their core, and neither party can hold claim to a moral high ground.

I have repeatedly explained why I left the Democratic party despite over 15 years of dedication to them. As with the party, no Democrat online has even ACKNOWLEDGED my position, but rather, asserted, as you do, that I have a bias against Democrats (ok, I do have a bias against democrats....but no more so than my bias against republicans).

The Democrats were, for many years, the party I loved, the party I worked for, the party I defended. I never abandoned them, they abandoned me.

And until that is acknowledged and that wound is healed, I will not be a part of their party.

Moderateman

on Jan 25, 2005

Reply #22 By: Gideon MacLeish - 1/25/2005 3:05:17 PM

The Democrats were, for many years, the party I loved, the party I worked for, the party I defended. I never abandoned them, they abandoned me.

And until that is acknowledged and that wound is healed, I will not be a part of their party.

I could have written this,,, it expresses exactly how I feel.

Moderateman

on Jan 25, 2005

Reply #11 By: UBoB - 1/25/2005 7:30:29 AM
"Bout time someone said what you did! Sheesh....so much intolerance here lately between Bush supporters and opponents."

I think diverse opinions are terrific. it makes a person think...But when I attack a party and then get attacked on a personal level, then I get downright mean. I offered to stop attack politics yesterday,, but when I see me being used as a reason for anything it does manke me wonder who and what kind of people I am dealing with. btw only one from the left took me up on my offer of peace and courteous discourse. ONE..

NJforever

on Jan 25, 2005

btw only one from the left took me up on my offer of peace and courteous discourse. ONE..

I'm all for peace Moderateman. I may have been angry when I wrote this, but it's all I really want. I'm just as mad at liberals who thrash the right in such a way.

We don't like *your* hate mongering or that of your extreme leftist *comrades* any more than you appreciate ours. You trash us (whipsy dipsy), we trash you.

Yeah, cause that will solve everything. I've heard of two people, what were their names, oh yeah, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Be the bigger man, drmiller!

No, actually it was Moderateman's 'Who the democrats have become' article that pushed me over the edge. But it was late when I read his and I decided to put it off. Yours did contribute to it thoughbut of course it did dabe, and you used that as a reason to wish me dead and rot in hell.. altho I can see in dabeland thats a kind and liberal progressive opinion.

Um, I'm not quite sure if you got this, but that quote you put in there was a quote from me. I'm all for peace, but I don't like to be called an America-haitng sheep just because I'm a Democrat.

And I extend the Olive Branch to all of you.

TheFazz

on Jan 25, 2005

My my my, it seems the article that is trying to push civility has become its own little battleground!

Dr Guy

on Jan 25, 2005

My my my, it seems the article that is trying to push civility has become its own little battleground!

Nope. just for the LLL Left and the whacko right. The rest of us are being civill. Cant you?

NJforever

on Jan 25, 2005

Nope. just for the LLL Left and the whacko right. The rest of us are being civill. Cant you?

Now now. I happen to know the Fazz personally and he is nothing if not civil. Unless you're talking to the LLL and whacko right, in which that was a little hard to understand.

drmiler

on Jan 25, 2005

Reply #25 By: NJforever - 1/25/2005 4:37:53 PM
btw only one from the left took me up on my offer of peace and courteous discourse. ONE..

I'm all for peace Moderateman. I may have been angry when I wrote this, but it's all I really want. I'm just as mad at liberals who thrash the right in such a way.

We don't like *your* hate mongering or that of your extreme leftist *comrades* any more than you appreciate ours. You trash us (whipsy dipsy), we trash you.

Yeah, cause that will solve everything. I've heard of two people, what were their names, oh yeah, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Be the bigger man, drmiller!

I'm sorry but I get tired of hearing the same "pooh" over and over again out of her.

drmiler

on Jan 25, 2005

Reply #15 By: dharmagrl - 1/25/2005 9:44:28 AM
We don't like *your* hate mongering or that of your extreme leftist *comrades*

Well, that just proved a point, don't you think?

No but this does!

You trash us (whipsy dipsy), we trash you.

She was reffering to "little whip".

Reply #8 By: dabe - 1/24/2005 11:47:21 PM
No, actually it was Moderateman's 'Who the democrats have become' article that pushed me over the edge. But it was late when I read his and I decided to put it off. Yours did contribute to it though

Yeah, that article was one of the most hateful ones here. Then, he gets all bent out of shape when a dem responds accordingly. Loves to dish it out, but hates taking it.

I will admit that I'm one of the most vocal (so to speak) righty haters here. And, I'm not apologetic for it. Not all righties, and not all republicans, though admittely, I do not understand them. I just hate the extremeist hate mongering that a few righties seem to get such glee in spewing here, like the article the moderateman wrote about democrats. As long as people like moderateman, drmiler, whipsy dipsy, etc. think it's OK to continually trash liberals, then I will respond. Period.

Next time please use my *entire* quote or don't quote me at all.

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