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.
I stood by that in 2012, by the way. I refused to vote for Romney. In August of 2012, however, FR officially stated that it would no longer be an anti-Romney platform in its activist way, so I left until after the election because I was and still am decidedly ANTI Romney and anti functional Democrat Republican. If I couldn't come on to FR and actively express ideas as a FORCE, so to speak, to convince people to FIGHT and REJECT Romney et all, to REFUSE to vote for them, then there was no point.
The only force I wield is the power of ideas and words, the power of the pen. Using that pen to complain about the existence of people who disagree with me seems a waste of time, so I instead use it to help people understand WHY voting "against" is a fallacy, etcetera.
God bless you and yours, Norm! We are kindred spirits for all our disagreements on how FR should deal with Romney sycophants!