I would like to request a level of civility in our discussions here.

[Savannahmann]

30. To a certain extent I agree. With Reservations

When someone is merely putting out discredited information, and has a long habit of doing so, then it is far more difficult to maintain a civil tongue, or fingers on the keyboard. It is sort of like when you meet a Holy Roller. You know the type, if you glance about and say it's a nice day, they tell you how God made this day just for us. After a few hours, or days, you turn and your patience has snapped. They may be nice but I'm sorry, but God did not design the crack in the sidewalk for one daisy to sprout up to inspire me. The crack in the sidewalk is a normal process of entropy and given time, the sidewalk will crumble to dust.

So when you come here, understand that there are histories. I have my issues with certain posters. I call them the apologists, or defenders of the faith. I am always arguing that we should be better than we are. We should strive to be the best we can be, not just less evil than the Republicans. That is not something I want in the history books a century from now. The Democrats at the beginning of the 21st Century were not quite as evil as the Republicans. Yet many of the apologists would be perfectly satisfied no matter what the Democrats do, or what program they support.

I will become more dismissive with them with obvious reason. I am a Democrat, and if you give me a choice, the Democrat is the way I will choose, but I am a Liberal too, and I will always push for more from my party. It isn't enough to win elections, we must strive for more. We must demand more, and when our elected leaders reach that goal, we then strive for even more. We can never rest, never give up, and never be satisfied that it was good enough. Because good enough means we are just slightly less evil than the Republicans, and that is unacceptable.

So I become more dismissive towards them. They do so towards me. It is not that we are generally uncivil, but each of us is firmly rooted in our own beliefs. Civility depends on a number of factors, and all opinions are not created equal. Imagine if someone came on here and began posting about Eugenics, the completely discredited scientific theory of the 1930's and 40's? We would deride them without mercy, and with good reason. That theory is absolutely disproven, and discredited by history. It would be the same as claiming the earth was flat at this point. People who post such nonsense do not deserve to be treated civilly. They have earned the derision they shall get.