I've been a member here since 1998, and I can assure you that the "feces -throwing" has been going on since well before you got here, as we continually strive to make "pretty good the enemy of "perfect". It has never failed to amaze me how we can puff ourselves up as the side of the political fence that has values while the other side fights dirty - we're the side that has adults while the other side acts like petulant children - we're the side that respects people while the other side uses them as pawns to advance their power - the list of contrasts goes on and on.
But HERE, on OUR OWN forum we shriek at at other like a bunch of wild hyenas and make ad hominem attacks on each other for doing nothing more than advancing different schools of conservative thought to an argument or having a difference of opinion on the relative credentials of our office holders and candidates.
Yeah, we're the grown-ups - you couldn't prove it by reading some of these threads.
I’ve been on since the Clinton impeachment years. I had to change my identity once cuz I lost my password. I really think there’s a real slippage in the discourse. My memory is of a place where there were frequently some very intelligent,judicious and well-supported posts. I really miss that.
With a anti-American, Bill Ayers loving, Jeremiah Wright following, 2d Amendment subverting, constitution shredding socialist in the White House, I’m not spending a lot of energy tearing down politicans who don’t achieve the ideal of idealogy.