Reply #29: I know how you feel. [View All]

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I've been a liberal for 20 years, but I only rarely get to fly the colors with a feeling of true victory. Over the years I have been attacked verbally, physically, and financially for my beliefs. I troll over on The Command Post and Winds of Change a lot because there is a good deal of exchange and the hosts rigorously endeavor not to arbitrarily ban posts.

The eight-hour workday, the end of child labor, the right to organize, civil rights, and women's rights did not come about because of the left's ability to out-sneer and out-snark the opposition. The most that is risked by engaging in on-line debate is the occasional ad hominem attack. When you think about it, that is something that can be endured rather easily.