re: #458 woodsman

I know that my conservative lean now puts me in the minority here (that’s another thing that has changed) but I need to say, that statement “the excesses of the right threaten to poison the right altogether” is the type of blanket indictment that Prager calls out in his peice. Not every conservative is a wingnut just as not every liberal or liberal leaner is a communist. Is the blog about ideas and sharing or tearing down and bashing.

I lean William Buckley, but I need you to lean semantically here. “the excesses of the right” is an anti-blanket statement. It specifically refers to extremists on the right that I want nothing to do with. That would be as opposed to saying that every conservative is a wingnut.

and “threaten to poison” in no way means “wholly represent”. If you think that was a blanket statement, you certainly will have a difficult time with sharing ideas. it is as much our responsibility to read each others’ posts with care as it is to write our posts with care.