Right-Wing Assholes

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Griff

Dude, don't you live in Texas?

Seriously though, usually when they're new they think nobody has ever heard their POV before. I used to pull the same nonsense with my libbytarian line of crap.

Yes, I live in Texas, and we are capable of having perfectly civil conversations here.

The thing is, being rude and abusive isn't a good way to get people to understand where you're coming from. I don't want to believe that people who disagree with me politically are not decent human beings, but it does bother me that the online right-wingers just seem to be such pricks. It makes their political stance appear to be a throwback to simpler, more hate-filled times. I don't think that's the case necessarily, but they aren't helping by acting the way they do.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Flint

Yes, I live in Texas, and we are capable of having perfectly civil conversations here.

The thing is, being rude and abusive isn't a good way to get people to understand where you're coming from. I don't want to believe that people who disagree with me politically are not decent human beings, but it does bother me that the online right-wingers just seem to be such pricks. It makes their political stance appear to be a throwback to simpler, more hate-filled times. I don't think that's the case necessarily, but they aren't helping by acting the way they do.

I guess it comes from at least couple directions. If you only deal with righties on a daily basis and then tune into most national media you feel like you are not being represented. Others could be righties surrounded by lefties and they need to blow off steam.