And they’re doing the very thing they condemned us for, only worse.
We / they / us......
That is what is disturbing about the atmosphere that has been promoted by this thread. You are putting your "we' in the exalted place that, it seems, you now expect to be exempt from comment. I stayed out while the long knives were out. There's no turning a stampede like that was. You just have to let the cattle run themselves to exhaustion.
But, I damned well do intend to make my opinion known; and if that is a problem, guess what?
This thread has been the most contentious I’ve ever seen on Free Republic. I signed off the thread a while back, only responding to posts to me like yours was. I don’t know what else to do.
Maybe this thread will never be turned off. Maybe it will become a brawling arena where people can air their grievances to each other and have it out, where the rules are less strict than the world at large like a sporting contest or boxing/karate match. In the USA we used to allow duels with pistols. In the wild, wild west there were gunfights but over on the other side of the tracks, on the “good side”, the streets were quiet and order was kept sternly.
If anyone steps over the line and starts arguing with the owner, or tearing down a good conservative to build up their own candidate or outright lying or whatever nonsense it is that gets posted in the rules, they get zapped. Who knows?