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I wish I could stop the habit of answering back to idiotic and/or provocative comments.

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Of all Obama supporters I have met so far, only two have proved not to leave a nasty taste in the mouth. Honesty and decency in that crowd come a very poor second to a fierce greed to prevail.

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I haven't really read a comment in your past few entries that was that idiotic or provocative. It just seemed to me that people were explaining why they a) voted for the guy and b) felt hope.

I mean, whether I agree or disagree that we should feel hopeful, it's still a good thing that people do feel hope. I mean, imagine if the entire country just turned around and went 'meh' after an election.

I should have said that I excluded some or most of my friends. I still have read statements in other blogs that make my skin crawl. But most of my run-ins with Obama supporters have been outside my own blog; and I stand by what I said.

Ah. Well, I kinda agree with you on that, I guess. I wouldn't go as far as to say it makes my skin crawl but no human should be elevated that high and it seems as though many of his supporters are doing that. Then again, I see the same thing done by Republicans. People do the same to actors, singers, writers, authors, even BNFs in fandom.

So, like, do I make your skin crawl?

I have to stop myself from arguing in the comments. I could do it, but I find it only makes me more anxious, never changes the other person's perspective. There's a chance I'm just a bad debater, of course. I find it hard to think clearly when I'm upset and I upset easily.

As I said elsewhere, I should have mentioned that I exclude some of my friends. By no means all - the complete lack of any critical spirit from people who are old enough and clever enough to know better, who ought to remember Carter in 1976, and Blair in 1997, and the end of disliked governments, and messianic hopes punctually punctured and turned to dust. I was also horrified by how many people seemed to think that Proposition 8 was an assault on anyone's freedom. Someone your age can be excused for faddish thinking, but do people really grow old while still keeping their feet firmly within all the muddiest and dimmest fads promoted by modern media? Anyway, the question is rather whether I make your skin crawl; whether my weary disgust with yet another messiah who will once again betray and ruin his own supporters really seems to you like trolling or like a betrayal.

"punctually punctured"

I love that.

It's never trolling to express your own opinions in your journal, though I will admit you have a way of phrasing your opinions that seems to tick people off!

Sadly, I suffer from the same ailment. Bonus points if the individual has absolutely no grasp of the punctuation rules of his/her native language.

Also bonus if he brags of his degrees (in the plural) in English, while failing to grasp the difference between a criticism of his style and a criticism of his grammar. (For a free specimen, look in my entry about Michael Crichton.)

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