Reply #9: For a small but extremely active and vocal minority here,

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politics is not about winning elections, making people's lives better, etc. It's about strutting and preening and declaring one's superiority to the rubes. Those are the ones who do most of the bashing.

And it really is true that even though I have spent my life in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, the only place where I have regularly encountered people eager to refight the Civil War is DU. Kinda ironic that "enlightened" "liberals" and "progressives" would be the ones fixated on a war that ended so long ago. But again, I think that's because it gives the haters what they desperately need: someone to hate.