One reason our politics has become so dysfunctional is because of leftists like YOU.
Yes, YOU.

Starting in the 1960s, I watched how you leftists dirtied and ruined America’s public discourse, by making boorishness, rowdiness, personal attacks, and sheer obscenity, into political tools. Speakers at public meetings were heckled off the stage or had pies or rotten fruit thrown at them, destroying their right to speak and their audience to listen. Filth and obscenity, repeated loudly and often enough, replaced real debate. Obscene “discussions” about the personal habits of LBJ’s daughters became a replacement for real debate about the way forward in the Vietnam War. Contempt and hatred replaced sincere disagreement.

And you leftists DID IT. It was deliberate. And calculated.

I have tried to have a civil discussion with you.
I have NEVER attacked you personally.

Yet from you, and from your left-wing predecessors who fled FrumForum after Scott Brown won, I have endured a steady stream of personal insults, put-downs, and personal insinuations.

Somewhere along the line,
you incorporated the left-wing mindset that anyone who isn’t a leftist is contemptible and must be treated as such.

You don’t know me and I don’t know you.
The Internet lets us hide behind our anonymity.
But you leftists keep abusing that privilege.
Just like you keep abusing the privilege of living in America.

And that should be fixed someday.

I’m going to repeat my point one more time for you,
so you can understand it:

The Department of Energy oversees a vast empire of regulation of ALL of America’s energy production and distribution.

Managing the nuclear weapons stockpile is a small part of that.

The fact that the DoE manages the nuclear weapons stockpile well is irrelevant, since it was always managed well no matter which agency was in charge of it. (At least three other agencies had been in charge of it before the DoE was created.)

We don’t need a DoE to manage America’s energy mix. Let the free market take care of it. If solar and wind power can succeed without hamstringing every other type of energy by regulations and bureaucracy, then I’ll be all for it.

Here’s a clue: What percentage of the DoE’s budget goes for managing the nuclear weapons stockpile? And where does the REST of the money go?

“As I said, I will not bother you with what you view as my clueless comments here in the future. I am not interested in wasting my time. In fact, I don’t even know why I bothered responding to your non-fact based and nonsensical inference regarding Palin here. There is just something about false and fact-free assertions that bothers me, I suppose. But I would appreciate it if you would refrain from making further fact-free inferences regarding what does or does not bother me. Please.”

No DavidW, we’ve all heard that very promise or pledge from lots of trolls here on FF. Last month it was AnnieGetYourGun and she reneged or flipflopped like a good little Obami.

Proof is in the silence. We’ll see.

http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/03/we-need-political-abortions/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-smerconish/for-me-the-party-is-over_b_470793.html

I am sorry if you felt my comments were primarily directed to your attempt at humor. I am just frustrated with the way that our governance has become so dysfunctional, especially since I see so much hypocrisy in the Republicans and their supposed respect for the Constitution even while they blatantly ignore the most important provisions of the document, which are not in the Bill of Rights, but instead when it comes to establishing the basic framework of government. In particular, the Senate was designed to operate based on majority rule, but both Republicans and Democrats think they know better. As Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist 75 when discussing the powers of the Senate:

It has been shewn under the second head of our inquiries that all provisions which require more than the majority of any body to its resolutions have a direct tendency to embarrass the operations of the government and an indirect one to subject the sense of the majority to that of the minority.

Anyway, in case your inclined to argue about this, I am not interested in doing so right now. I am just explaining why I feel the way I do. I am frustrated by our dysfunctional government, not your sense of humor.

Having a sense of humor is a good thing. And not everyone gets my sense of humor either. So, I am sorry if you felt that my response was directed towards you personally.

I have been persuaded not to comment here in the future, but certainly not because of your sense of humor.

Did I mention Sarah Palin? No. Do I care about her? No. She is obviously the very definition of someone who is very ignorant but nonetheless has strong opinions. I think McCain should have chosen someone who was actually qualified to be President as his running mate, like Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee. But the Presidential campaign is over, and so is the relevance of Sarah Palin.

Its nice that you are such a mind reader though.

I understand that you think I don’t have a clue. Don’t worry. As I said, I will not bother you with what you view as my clueless comments here in the future. I am not interested in wasting my time. In fact, I don’t even know why I bothered responding to your non-fact based and nonsensical inference regarding Palin here. There is just something about false and fact-free assertions that bothers me, I suppose. But I would appreciate it if you would refrain from making further fact-free inferences regarding what does or does not bother me. Please.

Thank you very much.