Reply #38: Welcome; your words make sense to me [View All]

[abq e streeter]

I too was flamed and personally insulted a few times when I started posting, if I dared disagree with certain people, as if a lifetime of political involvement counted for nothing compared to a post count on DU. In my case , I'd been reading DU for quite awhile, and finally felt obligated to start commenting on some of the counterproductive nastiness I started to see too much of, and like you, had a few ( but only a few) people respond with an attitude of looking down their nose at me. Because the majority of people I see posting here are reasoned and intelligent, I've stuck around and just started feeling sorry for those who feel the need to be rude to fellow progressives ( and of course, being rude to obvious trolls etc is a different matter, but I see no evidence that you're anything but a concerned progressive in what you've said today-----again, welcome, at least from me).