I have noticed a rather sharp uptick in the rhetoric around here lately. I think that the so-called moral majority (who the heck are they, really?) are really feeling their oats since the election. With all those exit polls stating that a lot of folks based their vote for Bush on "values"--a nicely vague term, btw, it seems they now think they have a license to lord it over everyone else, including other conservatives who don't fit their mold. Another poster on a different thread the other day actually said that the base deserved special consideration...and we complain about the Dems pandering to their base! For good reason, look what has happened to their party as a result! It doesn't even remotely resemble the party of FDR, Truman and JFK. Those were liberals and Democrats you could admire, at least politically.
Another thing is...who decided that they are the base?
They are behaving in the same way as the out-of-control libs and secularists they so despise. They just don't see that they are suffering from the same affliction: the belief that they are right, and anyone who differs from their beliefs is somehow stupid or unworthy. It's sad and depressing. It's good intentions run amok, imo.
Flame away, but keep in mind, I'm not singling anyone out here. :)
That's why sometimes I feel like I fell into DU hole right on Free Republic. We have seen this a lot over the past several years (in here).
It's been an interesting weekend, hasn't it?
I'm on a roll this weekend, I guess. I'm a parent with no values/morals because my child is in pubic school, and I'm a rage filled drug addict with no morals/values because I believe in the right of a business owner to permit smoking on his/her private property.
Ya gotta love the level of tolerance of some people. (I trust I don't need the sarcasm tag for this sentence)
No flame here, I spent hours reading a 900+ thread about divorce a few days ago. It was amazing what I saw there, and on some other threads I've been on as late. I think you articulated it very well.