Reply #11: You don't have unconnventional opinions. [View All]

I joined this forum several years ago and really enjoyed reading and contributing. But now it seems there is way too much bickering going on that I really don't enjoy reading or posting very much.

Several months ago, I posted about my older sister who has dementia and the problems that I was having with her medicines being destroyed at a nursing home, which I happen to think is a shame because so many people can't afford medicine. I was trounced on by one poster because I wanted to take her medicine with me when she left that nursing home to go to another. One medicine is one that I use, an expensive inhaler which had never been opened and she no longer knew how to use it. I was admonished about my using her medicine and how wrong it was because it wasn't prescribed for me. That left a sick feeling in my stomach because I didn't warrant that attack.

I, too have noticed the attacks on people's looks, which is really unkind, of no value in trying to express a point. I don't like it when it's done to someone whose political positions that I oppose...for example...Karl Rove is forever being called fat. What's that got to do with what he has done for/with/to this country? Nothing that I can see.

I agree with you...bashing one's mental capacity and appearance isn't helpful.