[cajungirl]

I always thought FR was hostile to people who weren't social conservatives,,some conservatives are pro choice after all and do the flames start when they are around. I have noted there is more bickering and intolerance and accusing etc lately,,seems like every thread turns into nitpicking and backbiting,,not as easy to chat freely as it used to be. Everyone accusing everyone else of being a dem or something else.

[grania]

Everyone accusing everyone else of being a dem or something else.

Actually, it was like that before the GWB nomination, with those supporting someone else really having to put up with a lot. And remember the Elian controversy...whew!!

I find that the controversy is healthy. When one's ideas are challenged, it forces one to think about his/her beliefs.

About the only things we seem to agree on totally is that Hillary is really, really disliked.

[RightWhale]

I have noted there is more bickering and intolerance and accusing etc lately,,seems like every thread turns into nitpicking and backbiting

Yes, a new social order is emerging. Heard that on the news this morning. Some high government official, didn't get his name. It's a phase of the birthing process. Whether we find we have evolved to something better or something worse, or something the same but subtly different remains to be seen. In any case the evolution will not stop long enough for our philospohers to catch up before we evolve yet again. The flowing river, mutable Selene, You Can't Go Home, Again."

The reasons are adequate: the war, the sleeping stock market, the sleeping economy, the election cycle, the all-wheel drive. We evolve to adjust. Or vice versa.

[Unbeliever]

I always thought FR was hostile to people who weren't social conservatives,,some conservatives are pro choice after all and do the flames start when they are around. I have noted there is more bickering and intolerance and accusing etc lately,,seems like every thread turns into nitpicking and backbiting,,not as easy to chat freely as it used to be. Everyone accusing everyone else of being a dem or something else.

The people who got sucked in by Shrubs' false "conservative" PR now can't admit that their golden boy is almost as far to the left as algore.

[lavaroise]

Everyone accusing everyone else of being a dem or something else.

Disagreements make for progress. It's not like we do not come back or call for a jihad against each other.