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In reply to the discussion: Do you agree or disagree with this general statement about where U.S. foreign policy should go? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I wasn't "negging"...I was simply making valid observations about you based on long experience.
It's respect to speak honestly about you.
You seldom do what we should all do and keep the conversation strictly on the issues-you've done some of that in this discussion, for a change, and I actually thank you for that). I'd LOVE to have that kind of exchange with you.
Instead, rather than treating other posters with respect, as all posters here should be treated so long as they don't personally attack or disparage you, you treat people here who disagree with some of your views-mostly just people who are to your left on economic issues, people who aren't in disagreement with you on anything else-as though they have no right to even be posting on this board, as though if you disagree with their ideas, they should simply feel obligated never to mention those ideas here.
It sounds as though it isn't enough for you to try to make some kind of a point, but that you feel you have to shout down and kind of verbally annihilate anybody who doesn't stay within your personal political comfort zone?
Why not just say why you disagree with somebody else's ideas without acting like you are a Democrat and the most of the rest of DU aren't, as though you should be the person who gets to determine which ideas can and cannot be discussed here?