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Old 03-04-2012, 04:59 PM
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Default A Faint Hope
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Originally Posted by Bucco View Post
A FORUM, by definition is an organized event where something is discussed. THIS IS NOT A FORUM...NOTHING ever is discussed.

As a charter member of this community, I came here to discuss, learn how others think and get different viewpoints on issues that confront the country.

If you read the posts on here, you will find it is simply somewhere to make up names for political candidates we disagree with and to vent our personal probems with churches, groups or whatever has bothered us through life....IT DOES NOT DISCUSS ISSUES at all. Fact is, it does not endorse DISCUSSION of any kind.

I post no longer because I never ever thought I would sway anyone but by offering my viewpoint or readings on issues that face us, I thought maybe I might learn something and share things but that has become a lost cause !!!

Currently we are discussing on here what a paid commentator said....WHO CARES is my thought...and of course the media feeds on this kind of claptrap. All it does is take us away from any discussion on Iran, deficit, the problems in the middle east, Syria, etc. The media feeds on this. For example, and I hope you will trust this is not partisan...just is that only the Republicans are having a primary.....Mr Romney can talk for 2 hours about our severe financial problems...Mr Paul can give us all food for thought on our budget problems and constitutional issues..Mr Gingrich can talk about our foreign relations problems...all of them for a long time giving their opinions on those issues....Mr Santorum will talk for 10 minutes about social issues which by the way will HAVE NO EFFECT ON THE ELECTION, and he will be the main story on all news channels and be discussed in here over and over, calling names mostly....never linking to readings...just playground stuff.

To encourage a friendly forum ? I dont think any political forum can be over friendly, but it can and should be civil (assuming it is all adults). There is NO attempt by anyone to call out folks for name calling, slander or any of those type of things...actually, it appears to be encouraged and AS ON ANY PLAYGROUND, if you have the biggest mouth and call the funniest names you become some sort of hero.

To encourage a CIVIL forum it requires those who really WANT a civil forum to police the others and for the administrators to pay attention.

We want our politicians to be civil....we want them to listen but we come on this forum and do just the opposite. We get the leadership we deserve.
Bucco, you are so right.

This forum, with a number of new members it seems, is even worse than it has been. I'll post every now and then to try to initiate a meaningful discussion of an issue. But it generally doesn't take more than a handful of posts for a few members to begin throwing ideological hand grenades or personal insults at one another. Take a look at some of the initial posts and then see where the "discussion" has evolved, usually by page 2.

I don't think many posters believe that they'll change anyone's mind here. But I for one maintain some faint hope that issues can be discussed and people with differing opinions can understand how others think about things.

But like I said, it's only a faint hope.