Reply #17: I could not agree more

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This is the main reason I spend way less time on DU, Kos, etc. recently. This "if you are not 100% with me you are my enemy and I can call you any name in the book I want" is very distressing. It's no different than the exaggerations and insanity we see from the right. That's to a large extent what made sane and smart republicans to either leave, retire, etc. I don't think it's easy being Olympia Snowe nowadays, and she is not the in the barricades and in your face type, she does not seek the limelight. But I digress, as usual. I definitely do not see why holding strong opinions means that those who do not share them must be demonized. I also do not agree with strong, derogatory language being used carelessly (for instance there is thread around here about the bailout where those who voted for it are called... you guessed, traitors! No thought given that almost all dems + the sane republicans voted for it as far as I remember, that the list of traitors includes names like Kerry, OBAMA, Boxer, Waxman, Woolsey, etc., etc., etc. To the guillotine with the whole lot of them.