At one point I offered the story of Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" and the way corporate America accused the president of being a socialist for acknowledging that allowing dead rats to be shovelled off factory floors & into meat processing bins was wrong and we needed regulations as well as regulatroy branches of government to enforce them.
I confused Teddy and Franklin D Roosevelt, misquoted the wrong one and effectively spent the next few pages of the thread hearing how stupid, illiterate and deceptive I am.
The very same behavior was repeated, over and over...if you had a point that might be valid, your grammar was picked at, or you misquoted the date, you forgot to put a comma where it should be...the original point is lost as you fight being angry at the insultive language used against you.
At one point I misquoted the writer of a song, then the authors of several books for giggles, the next page was devoted to what an "accidental liar" I am....the actual topic was long gone, I was being berated and accused for misquoting Dave Bowie or Michaerl Crighton and a point was proven.....the topics are only a facade for the real goal, righteous anger to any bizarre extreme.
It just got more and more bizarre, to the extent where the realization sets in that the goals of these threads is not to exchange thoughts or ideals, but to find blame and exert extrene levels of anger.
With the strong focus on wanting to point out defeciencies in my intelligence and mental status, I suspect there's a nasty void in this persons life that he seems to want to filll in the anonymity of his online experience, using politics as the label.
Whatever that problem is, it isn't my problem, nor should it be the forums.
