I don’t have a problem with people arguing about the candidates.
When they start to call each other names over who the other is supporting though...
And the endless pissing matches. Very little real discussion and too much shouting others down.
Everyone here supports their guy for whatever reason.
If it doesn’t happen to be your guy, that doesn’t make the supporter a mouth breather of some kind.
Nobody is going to be perfect. Nobody.
All of them will let us down in some way.
On this forum we demand perfection.
Every single one of the candidates has flaws. Every single one.
Our job is to pick the one with the fewest based on the information we get. Many times the information is faulty but most of us on this forum are well informed and striving to make the best decision.
It’s hard not to get too passionate regarding our choices.
Our country is on the line.
And our very lives too.
I can hear myself think and when it gets too ugly I ask God for help to make my mind right.
It’s hard to be civil when we’re watching our country dissolve right before our eyes.
“I don’t have a problem with people arguing about the candidates.
When they start to call each other names over who the other is supporting though...
And the endless pissing matches. Very little real discussion and too much shouting others down.
Everyone here supports their guy for whatever reason.
If it doesn’t happen to be your guy, that doesn’t make the supporter a mouth breather of some kind.”
I agree with your well written post. It’s when a poster descends into clever-witty-snarky-insults that it becomes ugly, and genuine civil discussion gets flushed down the toilet. At first I thought it was probably mainly noobs who were engaging in such, but then when I started wasting a lot of time looking at a person’s sign up date and their recent comments, I realized that such was not the case. Even on this thread there was a poster accusing another of being one of ‘the sort’ causing the turmoil, but a brief look at the accuser’s history showed that even the accuser himself has used snarky little insults like “Trumpertantrum” and such.
Yeah, much of the snark is funny, and witty, and displays the above average intelligence level of FReepers that makes this website so attractive to thinking people. The problem is that a large proportion of Free Republic has turned into a circular firing squad. The snarky remarks are driving people away.
Free Republic is my number one go-to news source, but for a while there, I just avoided all threads with either Trump or Cruz in the title. That was around the time when the term “Trumpanzee” became fashionable. However, the term quickly fell out of fashion when some reporter or such made the comment about the Cruz family Christmas photo how the children looked like chimps or something. The FReepers who had been using the snarky little “Trumpanzee” label seemed to have felt the sting when it was turned around on them.
Our lives and our Country most certainly ARE on the line. And “It’s hard to be civil when we’re watching our country dissolve right before our eyes.” But somehow, we’ve got to stop the fratricide, and instead, start focusing our fire on those who wish to destroy these United States.