Concerned Montanan wrote:
I recently signed up to this website, and am now very disappointed. I understood it was a place where intelligent people could have intelligent discussions.
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The only sites where manners, decorum, and intelligence reign are those that are closed sites. I've bounced around to various of these sites, and this one is as good as the next one. My reason for leaving is usually the hatred that is spewed constantly. The last site I quit harassed me about using pictures to prove my points - they didn't like those pictures because they were too gory. The implication was that it is acceptable to DO gory things, but it is not acceptable to SHOW that gory result. Why? Because it may make the ones doing the gory things feel badly about doing those gory things. If you can make sense of that circle of logic, I do hope you will explain it to me.
Every site will have both left and right, and anyone going in with a decent attitude will soon either leave, or have that decent attitude sucked out of him.
BTW, NO argument between the left and the right is EVER won. When the argument is over, both sides have lost because the two sides don't speak the same language, don't have a single thing in common from which to grow. Both sides speak from sincerity, but it is impossible to maintain civility when one side wants to find solutions to problems and the other side denies there are problems, hence no solutions are needed. Simply put, the left's only problem they can recognize is the existence of the right. The only problem the right has with the left is that the right gives the left too much credit for intelligence, and argues his case passionately to people who don't even listen. So, the impasse is: the right won't go away and the left will settle for nothing but total control - no other views permitted.
I never knew how sick America had become until I began posting, and I now know that America cannot be saved and I wonder if it is even worth saving now. I fail to see how we can ever recover any vestige of decency and good will. Our politicians, particularly of the left have worked their tails off to divide us, and it is the one thing they have succeeded at. We will always be at odds with the socialists/c*******ts/progressives/democrats, all one and the same in reality. Our government is a sham and has gone rogue, our President is a divider extraordinaire, our Congress is worthless and totally incompetent, our courts don't even know what justice is, let alone administer any justice. Morality and religion are made fun of and ridiculed at every opportunity. The only people in our country worth a dime are some of the ordinary citizens who have absolutely NO SAY in anything that is done.
If I were Atlas and could shrug, I WOULD.
Please don't leave us. We need every bit of sanity that is out there. It is a commodity in very, very short supply.