It tends to hurt and make for bitterness. Give it another go! Lots of very nice posters here.
I love you.
The real truth is that the person most responsible for the aggressiveness of Nazi Germany was Josef Stalin. You'll find more people who know that per square inch on Free Republic than just about any other place on Earth.
More generally, your post is right. There are some asses here; I'm occasionally accused of being one of them because I don't suffer fools gladly. But none of it is personal in many cases; just strong opinion. And there are some very nice folks.
To FlJoePA, don't lose sight of a basic fact: anyone who claims Joe Paterno was a "pedophile enabler" is a moron whose opinion -- on any topic whatsoever -- is not to be taken seriously. Like the hysterical mob rule that sent so many people who ran day care operations to prison in the 1980's for "Satanic Practices," the actual truth about the Penn State "cover-up" is slowly coming out. It's highly unlikely that the idiots warming up their tar and lighting their torches will ever admit they were wrong. But that doesn't matter. They're wrong all the same.