[William A. Baurle]

Michael, and the rest,

You make a good point. As I keep repeating, I don't support the man, didn't vote for him, and have gone out of my way, in fact, to criticize him, in several posts. But maybe y'all missed it?

What my point is, is simple: it's all well and good to be indignant and call the man whatever names may or may not apply to him, but that doesn't do a thing to improve civil discourse and will only make worse what is already a world-wide shit-slinging contest.

Dave Rubin, if I may drop his name here, since my thread went nowhere (as I knew would happen), is a good example of a contemporary liberal who is good at explaining not only what's wrong with the radical "regressive" left, but why shouting and screaming and blaming and name-calling doesn't do a damn thing to make anything better.

The video I linked to in my thread starts with seven minutes of Rubin discussing exactly what I'm trying to discuss here: that we need level-headed thinking, reasoned speech, and careful analysis of issues, with open minds, to fix the mess we're in, not more shit-slinging and screaming and yelling and smashing things.

Edited in: Hey, if you don't like Horowitz, fuck 'im. Turn it off once he starts talking, but at least watch the first seven minutes?