[wildcard_redneck]

"We were discussing written language over the Internet - where people are anonymous, can’t see one another, and are judged simply by their writing. We weren’t discussing in-person fisticuffs - and I don’t see a lot of capital letters in the quotes you reference, either (as eloquent - relative to the writing we see today - as they were.)"
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You are spouting pure bullshit now. If that weak statement is your argument then why did you bring up the Founding Fathers who didn't have computers?

In the nonverbal communication methods that the Revolutionary War generation had in the 18th Century; letters, newspapers, pamphlets, and posters they could be brutal, vulgar, and obscene.

Face it, you have no counterpoint to my argument so quit trying to dismiss others for writing with passion and not adhering to you squishy, weak style of argument.

You are rumbumptious mollycoddled mass of inanity.

[Jamestown1630]

The Founders were *writing*, just as we do here - and they wrote one of the most revolutionary and consequential ‘screeds’ in history. It’s called “The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America’.

They didn’t need a lot of superfluous capital letters to make their points. They did it with eloquence.