Not new, but the comment just rubbed me the wrong way & no it is definitely not the first time I have heard it. I am no angel when it comes to making comments. I have quite my share of nasty, lowdown comments I have, often regretfully, made to people. And yes a flame retardant suit is deflinitely called for sometimes. But, please clear one thing up for me because it truly does baffle me. Why do people get called out on whether they are conservative enough, a true conservative, a fake conservative......the list goes on & on. I am going to assume that on any site, regardless of it being extreme right, extreme left or somewhere in between you are going to have people whose views run all across the board. To expect everyone to be in lockstep formation regarding their political leanings is unrealistic. Frankly FR should celebrate the fact that all of us have chosen FR......no matter where we are on the spectrum. I like to know what is going on on both sides of the political spectrum & I see the same thing on left sites......if people deviate from the party line they are called racists, fascists, etc. It doesn’t happen a lot, but when someone questions my beliefs it stings & really bites because none of us really know each other to the core. We have to trust what we are given.
If you are secure in your view of conservatism, someone else's online opinion really shouldn't matter and is probably a misunderstanding you can easily explain without getting defensive. But as for choosing FR and then expecting others on it to swing both ways on the political spectrum, good luck with that. The owner of this Forum has clearly delineated where FR stands in the political/social spectrum , and trying to convert the community towards opinions on the left or even the center-left is not only a gigantic waste of time, it is pernicious. The past election made clear the danger of flirting with the disastrous, marxist/collectivist views of the Democrat Party or the progressive movement just to "get along", "reach across the aisle" or think oneself sophisticated. It has been a slippery slope since WWII which would have ended in certain destruction of our nation, had Hillary won. At last we have a chance for a course correction. Everyone's thought and energy needs to be directed to the positive ways to build our nation and our morale back up. Fastidiousness over semi-colons does not add value.