Still, I would emphasize that this mess on FR has left me pretty sad. I have been a FReeper for about 20 years. In the 1990s most FReepers seemed pretty sharp. Even the highly contentious religion threads (usually) had more-or-less thoughtful folks on both sides of a given controversy.
But today's FR Trumpsters alarm me.
After 3 straight days of constant negative attacks on Ted and unreasonable threads where peeps are calling him every name In the book- it just grows tiring- Day one people tried reasoning with them- nothing doing, day two people still tried reasoning with them, myself included, nothing doing ,and the responses by them started getting nastier and nastier- day three, and they are still going at it even after Ted apologized and it has become clear there simply is no reasoning with any of them- They are hell bent on crucifying Ted, and nothing will stand In their way- The only thing left to do is look on it with amusement- Heaven help FR IF ted becomes president- things will get really ugly then
I recall reading FR when Sarah Palin ran for VP- and I recall when Mitt Romney ran for pres- it was almost unbearable on FR with people slamming both candidates- criticizing every little thing they did and said- constantly - nonstop- It was guaranteed that if someone wandered into a palin or mitt thread they would get their head handed to them- looks like this election season will be no different- the lection took place, then those criticisms died down mostly- (with a few exceptions)