re: #23 marjoriemoon

I never trolled, ever, but was still treated with heaps of contempt. Why? Because I had a different VIEW.

Exactly. On the few occasions I’ve read through old threads, it felt just like wading through the vitriol of places like freerepublic and hot air. And yet, these same people who heap contempt at anyone they perceive as “liberal” will scream like little babies when someone dares ask them for a simple fact to back up their beliefs.

Suffice it to say I would never have joined this site when posters like that ruled the roost, and things definitely improved when they were banned. I came here after a few lefty blogs mentioned the change in tone (i.e. how Charles was increasingly calling out the craziness of the modern right wing) and am continually amazed at the caliber of discussion here vs. everywhere else (I believe I once remarked that reading the comments of LGF and then the ones on places like Politico and CNN was akin to stepping out of a rose garden and falling face-first into a manure pile).