It's time for this destructive meme about shutting up during elections to stop,

[sabrina 1]

90. "People get defensive about their candidate and will not listen to any criticism of his positions"

I think most of us were like that for a while, until we saw how damaging that is to this country.

I wish I had paid more attention to Clinton's economic policies eg, and the Dem Congress' signing away of Glass Steagal. But in defending him against the far Right, I was totally unaware of what was going on and we see the results of those policies now.

In fact I had assumed that the Dems had tried to stop the Repubs from getting rid of Glass Steagal and was thoroughly embarrassed when the facts were presented to me that I had been such a blind partisan I didn't even know those basic facts. The only excuse I have is that Bush terrified me so much that I wasn't willing to hear anything negative about what was our only hope to stop him.

Blind partisanship is part of the problem as was predicted by the FFs btw. And having once been guilty of it, I have learned that lesson.