Open letter to Free Republic

Self | February 4, 2016 | Self

[Nervous Tick]

>> Now many of the posts are nasty, ad hominem attacks if you can’t use reason as a tool attack the person.

Enough with the generalization! Name names! And they’d better NOT be me or fellow supporters of MY guy!

Just kidding. What you say is spot on. Thanks for the thoughtful post.

[kiryandil]

See my post #10.

[MrEdd]

Free Republic has had far lower moments.

[grania]

I for one would like to see everyone step back from the ledge

It seems that the personal insults that have nothing to do with the argument have toned down. Beyond that, I'm not sure how tame it can get with the way the campaigns are going. If conservatives don't thrash things out here, who will get past the BS and sort things out?

I'm wondering if FR life would be better if anyone working for a campaign had to divulge that information with their postings.

[over3Owithabrain]

Haha me too kinda.

It’s always like this at primary season. Things will adjust in the general even though it doesn’t seem like it now.

[Tax-chick]

Thank you. That was helpful.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I was thinking the SAME thing. To my knowledge, UTF-8 only appears from C&P articles.

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[WXRGina]

Usually it happens when one copies, rather than in personally-typed text.

Just as another commenter said, he likely wrote it in Word and copied it here. It's easier to do it that way. The weird characters, in place of punctuation, have been showing up on Free Republic lately. It's some kind of glitch that didn't used to happen.

HonorInPa, good post and spot-on.

[Pelham]

At least there aren’t mass bannings, like the Bushies here were doing to anyone bold enough to bring up illegal immigration.

[Slyfox]

[manc]

Agree and been saying the same thing.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Free Republic has had far lower moments.

I tend to agree. As bad as it is right now, in past cycles it has been far worse.

Still, we’d be better off if we could improve the level of discourse, you butthead.

:-)

[PROCON]

The hallmark of a strong and free republic is vigorous debate.

Obviously his post didn't sink in with you.

It's not about vigor, it's about tone.

[txnativegop]

Agreed.

[raybbr]

In the current Clinton/Obama world we are forced to live in one must COMBAT VIOLENCE WITH GREATER VIOLENCE!!!!!

I think he meant for FReepers to be civil to each other. Not when it comes to the progressives. If you didn't get that then you didn't bother to read the whole thing.

[Nervous Tick]

I like it!

“Collect ‘em all! Trade ‘em with your friends!”

[jokemoke]

Great post!!!

[HarleyLady27]

Good article...and Jim wrote another one yesterday...

I’ve never seen it this bad, but there is a lot on this election that we didn’t see before, maybe if this type of election took place with obuma, our Nation wouldn’t be in the condition that it’s in today...

But whatever obuma has done, will now have to be followed because the courts made their ruling with him...

[manc]

Agreed as I suspect after these last 3 months we have paid staffers to fan the flames, as we also have establishment paid troll to fan the flames between Trump and Cruz voters to get their open border liberal Establishment guy Rubio in.

[DaxtonBrown]

I’d have to say hear, hear. Pretty much encapsulates my feelings too. There are no perfect candidates, so trying to browbeat others into picking one or another isn’t going to work. Right now we are a circular firing squad.