Reply #72: Sigh! Democrats.

[TayTay]

I started this thread in an attempt to figure how to become more civil online and not perpetuate what we all claim to hate in those endless 'bashing threads.'

I don't want to bash anyone. I don't want to make cutting remarks about anyone who doesn't have an R attached to their name. (There are a few Dems I really don't like, but I will gently annoy them, not bash.)

There has to be a better way. There also has to be a way to acknowledge that politics is about feelings and about getting involved and about giving a bit of your heart to a cause and yet not fall off the deep end and start attacking people and not taking people at their word.

This is not that day, obviously.

I deeply regret the level of dialogue here. We need to back up and ask if this is who we are and who we want to be. It's one thing to defend a position people, it's another to refuse to see when harm is being done. Is this what we really want here?

Can we call a truce? Then try an actual dialogue that isn't so confrontational, personal and harsh?