Reply #1: It sure would seem so. More's the pity. [View All]

[mcscajun]

My experience with this: I spent a good deal of time posting on another message board in the months leading up to November 2004. It wasn't a political board, but had a section where any issue of the day could be discussed, and naturally the war on Iraq, then the election, each engendered quite a number of threads.

When it came to the war on Iraq and my opposition to Bush, I marshalled facts, argued rationally, didn't bash or belittle, yet I do not believe I persuaded one person there who didn't already agree with me. My posts there have declined greatly since then, because I've given up trying to persuade the unpersuadable. I let them stew in their own juices.

And I don't do this for a living; I can only imagine some columnists feeling they were yelling in a sandstorm.