For once, focus your bloodlust on Republicans --instead of the DLC/Firebaggers/ANYONE WITHOUT AN (R)

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55. There is one enemy where You would make two

How many ex republicans are out there right now...
Even here in the DU we have ex republicans.

Regardless of you being right or wrong, how do you react when someone is being belligerent to you?

How many of those ex republicans would have become ex republicans with a democrat shouting or worse shooting at them?

Not everyone who supports the republican party are extremists!

Look to the example of Iraq, right after the fall of Iraq we had the citizens on our side....that lasted until they got treated like hell. How different things could have been had we treated them as we treated Germany under the Marshal Plan.

No the republican supporters are not being treated like hell in the same way as the citizens of Iraq were, they catch verbal abuse from us and economic plunder from the corporatists. Many, those who are less exposed to the belligerent asses on our side, switch sides when they see who is really robbing them. But they are less inclined to do so when they think switching sides means joining a bunch of assholes.

When Barrack Obama was running for POTUS my neighbor was on the fence between him and McCain. This neighbor and his wife had ONLY voted straight republican all the way back to Eisenhower. He was a retired deputy chief of police for Tacoma. He and I became friends, we discussed politics at length...we NEVER shouted at each other and I confess I went easy on him.
Him and his wife voted for Obama that year...they will likely do so again. Do you think if I followed an all out war with this couple the results would have been the same? Before he met me, if there was an all out civil war which side do you suppose he would have backed?

There are thousands of stories like this across our land, your way ensures they don't get the chance to join us. The vast majority of citizens of this nation are not extremists who see only violence as a way to win their perceived goals...I confess I do not know how to win over the extremists...from either side.