Listen CP. We see your likes all the times on this forum. People who pretend they are realistic and make all the wrong doom and gloom predictions about the Republicans, President Bush, the war, the economy, etc... and they are wrong over 95% of the time. Last year this forum was full of morons predicting the utter defeat of President Bush and the Republican party and they could not be more wrong. This year the same crowd of defeatism and utter pessimism are infiltrating every thread and spread their wrong predictions of doom and gloom. You are one of them and you are very wrong.
I never predicted that Bush would lose. From time to time I may have said he was in real danger of losing. And you know what, brilliant mind-reader who thinks he can identify trolls? I was g-ddamned right. He was in real danger of losing. It was a close election.
Complacency is never good in politics. Do I tilt toward
making negative points about our problems? Probably. Is this bad for FReep? I don't see why. If FReep comments were primarily negative, I might change my tune. But there is a lot of poorly sourced, and equally poorly argued, optimism on FReep. I call it chest-beating.
As for my supposed 95 percent failure rate on predictions, go ahead. Find 20 predictions I made, 19 of which were wrong. I don't think you can.
A "defeatist" is someone who believes we WILL lose. I tend to point out how difficult winning will be, because that's what I see. But I also tend to say we must keep fighting. And I always believe it.
Grow up. It takes all kinds. You should have learned that when you were, oh, about 10 years old.