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To: LindyBill who wrote (132881)	8/16/2005 11:07:49 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793911

You misunderstand the point. Us/them thinking is definitely not disagreeing about public policy positions. More power to such disagreements. Us/them thinking is ad hominem attacks on people with whom you disagree. Dowd and Krugman get tons of it. As for whether I'm left wing or not, it's clear from the thread that anyone to the left of the latest change of position from the Bush administration is considered left wing on this thread.

To: LindyBill who wrote (132881)	8/16/2005 12:19:11 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793911

You have got in the habit recently of making this statement. I noticed that, too, and I found it an apt commentary. People can disagree on substance or people can react positively or negatively simply on the grounds that the it came from one of us or one of them. There's an awful lot of the latter going on. One of the funniest things I've experience on this thread was when a poster who shall remain nameless was repeatedly advocating a heartfelt POV. After a while I pointed out that that particular POV was being advocated by Dems, at which point the poster's POV did a instantaneous flip/flop.