We definitely agree with issue but differ on ways to get it done. I think it is good that we all don't sit around high fiving ourselves all day and night. We have many deep discussions and differences. I think we are an overall healthy and proportional segment of society.

Very much a bubble.

It doesn't even matter what you think.

That's really what civilization is. Something that we use to try to make the world how we want it. In our image. It's a mechanism that buys human beings time to think. Since there are many ways of thought, you can see what happens. A lot of conflict. A lot of double standards, and hypocrisies, and justifications, and rationalizations, etc. Basically everything that goes on in the human mind of each and every one of us. It's beautifully absurd in a way.

Just keeping up with the Kardashians can absorb some people nearly full time it seems.

Is the Academic group of Climate Scientists a bubble?

Or Liberal/Keynesian Economists?

So, in that way, it's not so different.

fellow liberals as the years go by.

Living in a dark red, bible belt Florida town where I'm considered a flaming, communist, atheist, liberal, it's nice to come here and actually be accused of being too conservative sometimes.

which makes it so entertaining at times.

Truly, reading some posts here, and talking to members of the community is like night and day at times. In particular when it comes to issues of race \ poverty and even policy. Suffice it to say, there are times that the chuckling gets intense in this house

It is hilarious.

Why it is great NOT to be fixated with this place.

And God what a poor miserable bubble that is.

... kinda misses the point of the complaints.

Besides, the monochromatic armor would get all mixed up.

haven't done that in a while.

Wow! it's worse than ever.

then you're pissed off for the rest of the day."

He's a good Democrat but he can't stand the controversy...

who can actually say Hillary is a conservative or right winger or that any of us who support Obama are conservative and right wing. Go out in the real world and say that.

will look at you oddly and tell you not that they are conservatives, but that they don't care about them, and their needs.

I guess it depends on who you talk to.

I talk to the people who concluded a while ago that politicians are just pretty words But you will have to forgive them, with a few exceptions they work three jobs, and can barely make it and have no time for navel gazing. Politics involves quite a bit of that.

Yes, there are exceptions and they are the best campaign ground troops you could find, but exceptions they are. Most of the working poor have no time for any of this...

and ants are swarming everywhere.

that are Free Republic or the site that shall not be named if you want to see a couple of totally monolithic bubbles.

formed at the outskirts

Too many people here think it's not.

They think that we are final word on everything but really---we're just a couple of people on the intertubes.

From the city, from the country.

How can they all think alike?

DU is a slice of America just as any poll should be part of America.

Are we in a bubble? Yes, on some issues, I would say so. We could never imagine anyone in America disagreeing with our positions.