The truths are that 95% of folks who write ideas for a living never or almost never come up with a new or original (in a few generations) idea, they live on the crop of others.
And even among those who are blessed by Providence to come up with new ideas, 99% of the ideas they write are grain taken from another’s field.
I include myself in the later, but not the former.
In other words all the great commentators and talkers we all read and listen to — their own ideas come from other sources, and a major source is right here: Free Republic.
The fact that Free Republic is among one of the greatest farms of ideas in human history is never remarked on of course! It it were to be, well, we’d lose. We’d lose that status. So ignore what I just said. Keep it an unspoken secret.
You are 100% correct. Though it’s nice to see some items go viral directly from FR. Sore Loserman and Rather’s fake National Guard docs come to mind.