All the FReepers who are ex-Left would disagree.
I wonder how many of us there are? A significant number, I reckon.
A Trumperrific day to you!
Ex-Leftie here, to be sure. After UC Berkeley, I voted Dem for about a decade. When our son was older and I wanted to get back into politics, I thought that car/lawyer leftie was about right, until I read his policy statement online. Voted for GWB after about an hour of agony in the polling place, but have never looked back. FR has been a place of solace and of great learning. And good friends.
“All the FReepers who are ex-left would disagree.”
+1.
As to how we can better use FR, I’d say less preaching to the choir. We need to double down on harassing the MSM for their bias. Call them up, ask why aren’t they covering major stories that appear on FR.
A substantial portion of the population won’t read Drudge or FR. We need to re-assert our voice in the MSM, where the other half of the population will hear us.
We should make more attempts to persuade those on the other side to re-examine their own positions and consider ours, using irrefutable, calm logic.
We should be more willing to unite on single issues whenever possible, and build toward a conservative consensus, with the understanding that not everybody’s journey starts at the same place or moves at the same speed.
When I read here about some middle-of-the-roader speaking out, taking an agreeable stance on a particular issue, and then FReepers proceed to drag out whatever that person said or did 20 years ago to remind us that we should continue hating that person’s guts, as if that’s the only principled thing to do-—that just frustrates me so much. How is that helping -—them, us, our country?
WWJD? I think He meets people where they are, and walks forward with them.