stifling dissent? Oh come on.. I feel bad a few good folks are no longer here but that was their choice to carry on and spar as they did..
I still scratch my head over why some started so darn early and so darn hard, only to blow a lot of good folks out of the water along with them as the battle intensified.
btw, I’d love to have seen it happen on the California threads long ago where sane folks endured haranguing continually for backing conservative candidates during and since the Recall until the recent departures of a few Progre$$ive shills who sold out hard for aRnie and the Kennedys and their socialist hugging agenda. We see the price for going down that path all too clearly.
I don’t know why it started early and hard, either. I’m not in the Rudy camp, but some of my longtime friends were, and they’re gone now.
Your response to the effect that “payback is a **tch” is probably satisfying on some level, but it doesn’t mask what happened.
You succeeded. The pro-Rudy folks are either gone or cowed into silence. Let’s have a party.