Fellas, FR, this website, is akin to a sparkling brook or a reflective lake. It is an ongoing reflection of human reaction and discussion among theoretically like-minded Americans. I think you mistake it for a force. You seem to want to harness it and use it to do something.
It is only a resource, a reflection, a disseminator of ideas, a place to start waves, to move the water. It is constantly shifting and changing and reflecting the voices and concerns of kindred American patriots.
At BEST as a force, FR is a disseminator of ideas, and I believe truly it is an effective one. Jim Robinson et al created something extremely valuable in Free Republic. PLEASE SUPPORT FR WITH YOUR DONATIONS, presidio and Norm!!! And any and all lurkers!!
FR is not a force except in that it's a reflection of what is really going on in the minds of kindred spirits, and a darned valuable and good one.
Thats strange because Jim used to say stuff all the time that FR was indeed a force to be rekoned with. And it used to be leveraged to action. It didn’t sit back and ‘reflect’ or let liberalism reflect on anything. I miss those days.
I remember reading a lot of Jims words that are every bit the polar opposite of what you posted. Namely that he never intended it to be a debate society but a tool for action and activism.
I miss that too. And I appreciate the numbers you crunched. But Having run a site myself that numbered readership in the millions for several years, the numbers are meaningless unless toy act on them. Leverage them. We had plenty of readers that were very ‘Go Romney” in their respective way. I get the ‘intracacies’ of people management.
I also get what a time loop looks like and how it works. We;re in one.