Reply #26: "...we don’t know simply because we can’t know." I think we *do* know... [View All]

[puebloknot]

...what is best for this country, and we've seen very little of it over the last seven years. We *know* in the same way that the founders of this country knew, and they were a pretty scrappy bunch. Polite tea-party rhetoric is not what created this country; a tea party of a different sort is!

Spirited discussion is the lifeblood of democracy, and this board is a perfect place for us all to air our own adult perspectives. Well-considered criticism is *not* bashing, and playing nice is the last thing this country needs right now. If we all pull together for the wrong things, we are doomed to live under continuing fascism. We have a right, and a responsibility, to demand straight answers of our candidates. This board is a good maneuvering vehicle for just such an exercise.

To the extent that certain exchanges are not in line with the rules the mods have set out, a wagging of the finger is in order -- by the mods. Beyond that, let the dialogue flow!