Reply #145: And this is your answer

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There are too many people on the extremes right and left who want to classify other people. And here, on DU, name callings fly quickly, often by people who do not even bother to read a whole message, to understand it. Everything is black and white with no shades of gray.

The irony is that this is how we often define the right wingers but too many on DU are the mirror image of them.

As for guns, well Kerry does, too. Wonder whether he would fall under the definition of "conservative democrat." And, frankly, I don't know why such a term should be derided and attacked. I do not consider myself as such, but sometimes, when I read some posts here I do feel like one.

Mostly, not everyone who hates Bush and the war is necessarily a nice person; not everyone who agrees with Bush and who supports the war is necessarily evil. But this is how, sadly too many DUers divide the world.