Posted on 02/20/2016 7:11:53 AM PST by Raycpa
The divide between Freeper's in the Trump vs. Cruz battle is more heated than I recall any other divide of Freerepublic. Just about every thread immediately devolves to a nasty fight that carries from one thread to another.
I think we need to be careful with each other because both camps need each other after the primary. Can we just agree to disagree and move on? We have more in common with each other than not.
The Threads about maintaining the protections of age of consent laws are far more heated, and always get pulled.
Cruz versus Trump is a two little girls having a tea party by comparison.
JMHO...when the paid provocateurs for campaigns are no longer posting, we’ll get back to our normal level of spirited discourse.
For pure vitriol, the Terri Schiavo threads were hard to beat. This is much more widespread though.
I blame it all on those darned “mister asterisk” Duncan Hunter supporters in 2008.
HOORAY Cruz
HOORAY Trump
There are those here that treat this forum like an endless roadmap and cityscape from which to spew ninez as they low-ride past their enemy each morning in their 65 Chevy. Slow riding and deliberate, then BAM! spray a few, then off down the street to circle around and do it again.
They must get pulled before I log on.
As much as we go back and forth, I can easily go to a topic about something non-primary related and post to the same people like nothing ever happened.
I’m 100% for Trump, but respect Cruz. I just believe Trump will do things so different, he’s worth trying out. We need a real genuine change to save our nation.
We ought to at least be farsighted enough to recognize the implications for the future of what we are about to post, and then temper it, if it would hurt our chances in the general election.
A critique (or my response to it) need not be dripping with vitriol or stinging words.
Yes, at least you could skip them.
I’ve been thinking about this very thing for a couple of months. I have refrained from posting. I will not vilify any candidate.
But yes, I fear this whole thing could tear FR apart.
I will vote for either Trump or Cruz. The threads that repel me are the ones attacking the Virgin Mary! Why?!
I try to stay anonymous because of business but I still try to remember that someday a client may be reading what I write.
I saw that as just another attack by one group of Freepers to another.
Thanks. I needed a laugh!
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