I'm happy we have a pretty good crop of candidates this time, relatively speaking.
But, yeah, it gets pretty disheartening to see the ad hominem attacks, piling on, bumper sticker slogans, vulgarity, vitriol, and immaturity when we should be arguing the facts and the policies.
I'm happy we have a pretty good crop of candidates this time, relatively speaking.
Actually, I think we have a pretty bad crock of candidates, none of whom inspires much of anything other than resignation that once again no matter who wins the races freedom and limited government lose, but never mind for now. (Said crock puts me in mind of Murray Kempton's observation, from 1962, "It is difficult for one who has enjoyed both the taste of our beer and the flavour of our politics to decide which has gone more sour in my lifetime.")
But that's just me.
But, yeah, it gets pretty disheartening to see the ad hominem attacks, piling on, bumper sticker slogans, vulgarity, vitriol, and immaturity when we should be arguing the facts and the policies.My own rule is, insult the politicians to your heart's content if only because they earn it. (Perfect example: His Excellency Al-Hashish Field Marshmallow Dr. Barack Obama Dada, COD, RIP, LSMFT, Would-Be Life President of the Republic Formerly Known as the United States.)
But don't attack someone for preferring the candidate you don't prefer, or for holding a view contrary to your own for no reason better than that they do hold a view contrary to your own.
All I know is if I see someone supporting Jeb on this forum I will viciously attack them, oh wait, nothing to worry about, there is no such animal as a Jeb supporter on this forum!
“But, yeah, it gets pretty disheartening to see the ad hominem attacks, piling on, bumper sticker slogans, vulgarity, vitriol, and immaturity when we should be arguing the facts and the policies.”
I think we have more active DU trolls than usual. You can tell by their posts they came here to trash the place. You could find almost the same posts over at DU.
“I don’t remember it being this bad before and I’ve been around for a while.”
Same here. I started in 2000, I think, and I don’t recall the nastiness. I think we’re frustrated with maximum pent-up anger, and can’t strike out at the true villains — MSM, Obama, Congress/Senate selling out, etc. Can’t kick the dog. Can’t beat the spouse. So we’re attacking each other, at our wits’ end.
We’ll get over it and be OK after the Convention.