And we have our share of folks with prickly and unpleasant personalities (in cyberspacem at least). Not as many as DU, but enough to make me think that we cannot feel that we have the monopoly on courtesy and thoughtful debate.
Some of our threads dealing with homosexuality bring out responses so hateful that I sometimes wonder if they are posted by leftists trying to make us look bad. I think some of the posts probably are done by leftists, in fact.
There are the people who believe that once they have cited a verse from the Old Testament, the debate is over and they won. While they may be right, they need to remember that we need to persuade people have not already reached the same conclusions as we have, and may not even accept all the same premises.
At this moment, the Democrat Party is definitely writhing and screeching like a demon being exorcised from a person (in movies, at least-- in the Bible, I seem to remember that demons simply obeyed Jesus and left without throwing a huge tantrum, but I may misremember the details.)
They are in full meltdown as they see that they have lost their monopoly on the mass media. The Democrats, I mean, not the demons.
Anyone remember what these freaks were saying on 9-11? Literally MINUTES after the news broke that Barbara Olson was killed, the lefties were saying "Look on the bright side...that b!tch Barbara Olson is dead"
I believe this is a verbatim quote...sickening.