Reply #111: bush press conference [View All]

I check in on DU regularly, and usually smile or sigh and move on. This post was just too good to pass up, although I recognize the futility of offering any differing opinion.

I would just respectfully offer the observation that, as I cruise all sorts of blogs, I find virtually no honest intellectual discussion going on here at DU, no willingness to engage in vigorous--but civil--discussion. I suppose that might be due to the fact that the opposition party is out of power right now. But I've been around a long time, and I have never seen the kind of mindless hatred and mudslinging that I encounter on this site.

I don't doubt that the response to my comments will be something along the lines of "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the fire", which I will gladly do. But I do so hoping that someone who spends too much time on this site, and not enough time getting any differing opinions will listen to this:

What you are doing isn't working. What you are doing will never work. This kind of hatred is sad and reflects badly on you.

Now I will sigh and move on. After all, my team is winning. And if it doesn't win in the next election, I will be civil and restrained, and work to change the election after that. That, my friends, is what this country is really about.