[quote=Rich Toscano][quote=bearishgurl]It would be more helpful to readers if posters would just stick to the important issues at stake in this presidential election and dump the “presidential personality contest.” [/quote]
Idunno, when a presidential candidate is an obviously deranged aspiring fascist who literally cannot even spell… I guess I see that as important.
[quote=Rich Toscano]And I’ll admit to some personal bias here, but it doesn’t help that so many of your novel-length comments these days are impassioned defenses of that goose-stepping canned ham who you inexplicably think would be a good president.[/quote]
And your reply:
[quote=bearishgurl]Well, Rich, I actually haven’t commented on why anyone would make a good president so I don’t know where you are seeing that.[/quote]
So is this you “not commenting” again on who would be a good president?[/quote]Rich, how are any of my posts here actually stating who would “make the best president?” Have I made such a post? Have you?
I think it is insulting to half the country to have a few posters on this forum who repeatedly call out Trump supporters as somehow dumb and deranged just to make themselves feel more “superior.”
My understanding was your forum was not partisan … and you have stated publicly here that don’t want any “left-right slapfests” (your words) carried out on it.
When a poster insults the intelligence of voters because they didn’t vote for his/her “preferred candidate,” that is the same thing in my mind.
They don’t even have to discuss the candidate themselves but instead overtly put down half the country’s electorate and it has a worse effect than attacking the candidate outright (which is to be expected).
Remember, I WAS a Dem for over 32 years when I recently re-registered as a Rep. I was a Dem activist in SD County for nearly nine years, working on several local campaigns. If anybody knows what the Dem electorate consists of (especially here in SD County), it’s me.
I can assure everyone here that Dems hail from ALL walks of life …. including and highly representative in the working class, the “2nd Amendment people,” the “welfare queens and kings” and the “uneducated,” etc.
I for one am tired of reading here that Trump supporters should all be pigeonholed all into neat little boxes which bear little resemblance to who they really are by know-nothings masquerading as Dems living their lives vicariously through their armchair amusements.
I’m certain that it’s caused several longtime posters to just abandon the forum …. or at the very least, stop posting because they can’t discuss the reasons why they will vote for Trump without being called a “bigot” or “racist.”
