I want to learn all I can about these politicians, the bad, the beautiful and the detailed. These posts are useful to me in many, many ways.
For these efforts the posters are often scorned, belittled, even savaged for performing a service which I, for one, find invaluable....just because they favor a certain candidate.
I've never seen such a level of vitriol in the thirteen years I've been on this forum as that emanating from some of the slavish devotees of one candidate or another against someone supporting another candidate.
The hostility evinced toward a supporter of another candidate seems to trigger in some an innate rage and an urge to name-call and insult that is evident on almost every primary election thread now being posted on FR. This is shameful. But shame doesn't seem to enter into any equation any more.
Leni
It’s a contested Primary. One candidate has a lot of money and his supporters are getting tired of having to constantly answer for him, and wish we’d all just go away. But it’s politics. I think that most people can put aside the nasty stuff and still learn a lot of facts about the candidates, in order to make an informed choice.
Things will quiet down after the primary season, don’t worry about it.
Thank you.
The same dynamic happens every election cycle, only (some of) the names change. Was also pretty interesting around the Harriet Miers nomination; and there is ample vitriol in the birther threads.
Not that you should do what I do, but vitriolic exchanges present an opportunity to do some independent fact-checking, and then deciding (without necessarily saying anything) which posters are spinning. That helps the reading filter chore for the long run.