I understand, but one person's "weirdo" is another person's food for thought.
Here in LA am I considered a nutjob simply for refusing to let my kid speak spanish.
I suppose I could acquiese and acquire more friends by becoming a bi-lingual family, but that would just be cowtowing.
I feel that we tilt a little in that direction sometimes. "Don't say that or the left will think we are weird". Well, if some people are thinking weird things, it's better to know, IMHO.
Again - I'm not talking about what the dems call us.
For a time here - many of us refused to invite people to check out FR. Why? Because we were going through a seige of discussions where FR's were saying child porn was ok online as long as it was not using real children. Then the drug threads.
I am saying each of us should just act respectfully as we post because we never know who is reading the posts and judging the site as to credibility and respect.
Wouldn't each of us prefer that FR was considered a site worth checking out by the powers in our country? How very nice if politicians, writers, policy makers checked out the views on FR to see what the grassroots were thinking.
How easy to get our views to them if they could just check in here to get a "feel". That will never happen with trash language, promotion of child porn (if not real children), free drug promotion.
Just call me idealistic but it would be nice for our views to reach those who have the power to enact them.