OPP members are engaged in an ongoing political/ideological ping pong game, no one wins, no one loses, and no one is keeping score.

The bulk of interactions here are just people busting each other's chops. 99% of the activity on the Main page is either an attack or a defense and no one on either side of the issues is yielding an inch. Lord knows I have roundly engaged in this crap myself.

Nothing happening here on OPP is going have any effect on the future of our nation. At the most there are 20 or 30 active members, and regardless of the power or weakness of anyone's argument, I have yet to see a change of mind on either side.

We are on a threshold unprecedented in American history. Even the American Civil War or WW2 can match the potentially devastating consequences to our nation's security and economic prosperity if we cannot get back to the principles of America's founding.

And then there are the trolls. Seems we have an abundance of them, most of whom are raging against that possibility, and I have no qualms about busting their chops. I didn't swear the oath to defend our constitution and our way of life and spend much of my life doing so to allow idiots to go unanswered.

Really, the only thing keeping me here is occasionally someone posts an opinion or a source that is informative, enlightening, entertaining, or supports my world view and provides food for thought.

I surely understand the reasoning behind Mr Mister's decision to quit.

It is because they spend too much time Acting on the premise of "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" and it went right to their heads, now some of them are lost in another world, one of make believe, where their rules are all that matter, and reality no longer exists. Any one who doesn't play the game by their Alice in Wonderland rules is therefore evil, thus all conservatives are insane in their eyes. Let them play their games of hating all people who are not communists or of that ilk, we can have conversations without their moronic interruptions.

OPP members are engaged in an ongoing political/ideological ping pong game, no one wins, no one loses, and no one is keeping score.

The bulk of interactions here are just people busting each other's chops. 99% of the activity on the Main page is either an attack or a defense and no one on either side of the issues is yielding an inch. Lord knows I have roundly engaged in this crap myself.

Nothing happening here on OPP is going have any effect on the future of our nation. At the most there are 20 or 30 active members, and regardless of the power or weakness of anyone's argument, I have yet to see a change of mind on either side.

We are on a threshold unprecedented in American history. Even the American Civil War or WW2 can match the potentially devastating consequences to our nation's security and economic prosperity if we cannot get back to the principles of America's founding.

And then there are the trolls. Seems we have an abundance of them, most of whom are raging against that possibility, and I have no qualms about busting their chops. I didn't swear the oath to defend our constitution and our way of life and spend much of my life doing so to allow idiots to go unanswered.

Really, the only thing keeping me here is occasionally someone posts an opinion or a source that is informative, enlightening, entertaining, or supports my world view and provides food for thought.

I surely understand the reasoning behind Mr Mister's decision to quit.