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To: Cogito who wrote (196709)	8/13/2012 12:05:56 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541403

:-) You are so sweet. And it's nice not everyone sees me as the Chamberlain of View. It was not appeasement so much as 1. I honestly think we ARE mostly left, and 2. I am lazy, and I want to do as little moderating as possible. If I save myself the effort of banning even 1 troll, the name change will not have been in vain.

To: Cogito who wrote (196709)	8/13/2012 12:06:01 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541403

It is more evidence of how the right wing agenda has succeeded in moving the goal posts, and apparently folks are willing to let it happen Was a time in this country when unabashed support of things like Medicare and Social Security was considered normal Now we are being asked, and responding, by allowing our views to be characterized as "leftist" Sorry, I think that is ridiculous ...and I guess I might have expected there to be more response from this group, but being cowed is also a trait of the left it appears