Reply #72: A true evocation of superiority [View All]

Your caring and belief is greater and deeper than others'.

As for your contention of "meanness" always being defensive from the extremists within the Clark camp, there are MANY examples of Clark-based aggression. Clark supporters regularly crash into pro-Edwards threads to slag him. Once again, the Clark extremists are rarely attacked; they're the attackers on other threads. To play the victim is nauseating; the truth of this seems to be that the acolytes of the hero are to be always in the right, and if they encounter praise of another that annoys them, they have the god-given right to attack, and if countered, they are suddenly being victimized. If one knows the religious truth, any impediment is an attack, even if one is in the aggressive act of proselytizing. (You're the one who raised the religious devotion metaphor, and it's a damned good one for the Clark extremists: it's religion, beyond the need of proof and exalted above any pedestrian desires for tolerance or coexistence.)

This is precisely the problem: privilege. Somehow those who've found their messiah are loosed from any restraints that the rest of us peons must obey.

Do you really think that other candidates don't have family members posting here? Elizabeth Edwards has posted under her own name.

It's disgusting to claim moral superiority and privilege when done so ignorantly. Either you don't know what you're talking about or you're so self-blessed with the bright light of salvation that anyone else doesn't have a right to exist. This is conservatism: selfishness and intolerance. This is why the extremists of the Clark camp grate so: a haughty demand to be treated as the aristocracy of the soul.

Other people care, too. Other candidates care, too.

Join the party and be a part of pluralism; manners are the stuff of decency.

You're not just hearing this from the Clark supporters' bete-noirs (the Edwards supporters) you're hearing this from EVERYONE. Non-aligned, partisans and those who support more than one candidates ALL have been getting the faces of the Clark extremists. There's a reason for this: the tactics are out of line.

Your love is greater than that of the rest of us. This means that YOU are a more valuable human being than the rest of us. That's privilege, aristocracy, conservatism and the dismissal of others.

The undercurrent of the devotion of the extremists in the Clark camp is deeply disturbing. It smacks of conservatism and intolerance.