All I can say is that you have a very curious posting manner for someone who claims they are “trying to get the discourse down to a level where it’s civil”. It seems to me like someone throwing mud at their car to wash it.
Good luck, though :-)
Don’t want or need “luck” from anyone who “thanks” the kind of people who post that kind of dreck as “voices of sanity” and then plays obtuse.
I suspect you are of like mind and using a more underhanded and deceptive approach, “faux kindness”. Using deception and sarcasm as a means to undercut the message by attacking the character of other FReepers. Only not doing it right out in the open.
Exposing hypocrites for what they are is truth, a hit dog yelps, the truth hurts, etc.
Sure is a lot yelping going on from the pro-Romney crowd here on FR.
Can’t “seem” to find their manners.
If our paths on FR never cross again, that will be fine with me. I don’t cotton to deceivers or folks who can’t abide by or recognize the truth.