Reply #28: I find that hard to believe

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Let's say there are 10,000 people here. There must be some people that you agree with on some issues. It doesn't have to be BInary, as in you are either in NYC or LA. There is an entire middle of the country from Ohio to Colorado. There is also a middle ground between total Obama-hater and total cheerleader although it my not seem like it from some of the exchanges.

Here's the way internet debate seems to work though. Suppose you are in the middle of the room and I wanna get you to move to a particular side. Suppose I come up and give you a good shove. Two reactions are gonna be kinda standard. Either you will dig in and shove back, or you will back away thinking "whoa, this dude is a little bit unbalanced". Either way, cooperation is not a likely result.

Often threads will seem to be very strongly stated, the beloved RANT, which lays down the law. "This is the way it is and that's the end of the discussion and to hell with anybody not on our side!!" This is usually followed by either a chorus of 'Bravo' and 'well said' or, alternatively 'you are way off, to hell with you'.

As with your OP, which seems to be over-stated. As I asked, do you really disagree with everybody here about everything? I think it is more likely that people are people. I agree with many people here on many things, and disagree on other things. Sometimes, however, when I seem to be the lone voice of dissent on a thread with 80 KNR's I have to wonder "don't I agree with the mainstream of DU about anything?" And the other funny thing is that with many it seems that even if you agree about 85% they will declare you an enemy combatant over the 15% where you disagree.