Which D forum are you checking first? I'm slowly finding myself checking out

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33. I don't want to hide from those whose opinions I totally disagree with on important issues that

affect this country. I want to confront them. Some are simply unaware of many of the facts they don't get on Fox etc. I'm not sure I will change any minds, but I can provide them with facts they have either have ignored or were never aware of. And minds DO change, they HAVE to if we are ever to get any real change in this country.

That won't happen by living in an echo chamber. It happens when people find common ground on important issues. And it won't happen if we constantly attack half the country. It happens when we find reasonable people who are willing to stop the name calling and personal attacks and listen to what others are thinking. I don't waste time on those who are simply nasty for the sake of being nasty, who obviously hate 'the left', cultists iow, nor do I waste much time with their counterparts here, who ironically ALSO hate 'the left'.

But in the middle there are plenty of people who actually do care about this country but have different ideas about how to make it better. They, many of them, are as embarrassed by THEIR extremists as we are by ours.

Nothing was every accomplished in this country by people hiding in their own camps launching insults at each other. Anything good that happened happened when enough people were willing on both sides, to work for the benefit of the COUNTRY.