Spot-on!
ACTUALLY ... this happens a whole lot on Free Republic. It’s not limited to the liberal mind. You can see all sorts of personal and vicious attacks on this forum.
I think one can viciously attack ideas and philosophies. That’s okay. But inevitably, if the disagreement continues for very many rounds of posting - it will devolve into attacks on the person making the comment.
And this doesn’t have to be attacks on those who are more on the liberal side, but it happens to those who are conservative, here on this board.
And then there are the snide and snarky remarks.
Also ... there are those who won’t take a thread seriously and instead make it devolve into a joke-fest - or those who make totally nonsensical remarks.
It’s the same on all forums and not just Free Republic — so it is apparently a “human condition” that no one can seem to get away from.