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In reply to the discussion: JPR Nutjobs interpret CA moving up their primary as an attack on Sanders chances in 2020 [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)You write that "JPR folks ... are insane as you yourself have noted in this case."
I have noted nothing of the kind.
See, I have this weird idea that there are subjects on which reasonable people can disagree. Not everyone who disagrees with me is insane, or is pursuing a hidden agenda, or is being paid by George Soros/David Brock/the Koch brothers/the Russians or whoever the villain du jour is.
It may be that online boards tend to encourage this kind of absolutism -- the idea that "my position is so obviously right that no one could possibly disagree with me on the merits and therefore everyone who disagrees with me must be doing so for some deplorable reason." I personally do not subscribe to that generalization. In a specific instance, there may be reason to believe that someone is posting because of, for example, a personal financial interest, but that kind of accusation always requires evidence.