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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (123298)	10/20/2009 6:54:07 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542149

That specific person constantly came here to post stuff to push various people's buttons. And if I went to Lindybill's thread and posted a whole bunch of global warming alarmist articles I imagine I'd be banned tout sweet too- especially if I called the right wing a bunch of lemmings... And please, don't tell me about the name of the thread. This place is clearly mostly liberal. If it wasn't, I wouldn't post here. I like the liberals here- heck many of them are more liberal than me. There really is not much of a "center" on SI- or if there is, they aren't interested in politics. People interested in politics tend to be kind of polarized, and that's what you see. But I'm not surprised you didn't see the sticks. We all kind of see what we want to see when it comes to our political buddies. No one is objective- not even you. I'd like to see the name changed to "View from the Left"- because then maybe people would STF up about the name of the thread. The points is, don't come here trying to push buttons. No one who posts here enjoys that, and AGAIN, if we did enjoy it, we'd be on FADG or one of the other ridiculously combative threads. In the end no one is going to change their minds much. And not because the right or the left is "stupid" or "avoids information"- contrary to what some people on both ends of the spectrum sometimes say (about the "other" side). We want different things out of life and we have different priorities. We tolerate different amounts of change, and we are willing to embrace varying amounts of moral variance in our societies.