Question about another group here

[Mark F]

Has anyone besides me noticed that members of a certain group here (We the People) have an awful lot to say about how Obama is a secret Muslim foreigner who is out to destroy America and all that, yet they have absolutely no threads* about Republican alternatives or other ideas. It seems to me they spent all their time and energy spewing about Obama and impeachment and stuff, but not one ounce of effort or any time is spent talking about alternate solutions to any problems.

Or is it just me that thinks this way about We The People?

*I may be exaggerating here, they may have a thread, I just haven't seen any.

[Boothby171]

Perhaps, "Aggressively Ignorant"??

[John Turberville]

"but not one ounce of effort or any time is spent talking about alternate solutions to any problems."

NO WE CANT!!!!

But "MAYBE" WE CAN if you elect another republican....

[Tina]

Some of the members of that group are friends of mine, some since old TBD. However I sincerely made an effort to tie in with them also at old TBD and here. Since the election I have noted several times that yes, there seems much anger and panic, defensiveness and attacks. I left the group a few months ago, because there were no discussions for a few there, it didn't matter if you agreed, asked a question or disagreed, the response was almost the same every time. If one is not religiously a "Republican" and loudly proud of it, the feeling is you do not belong there! So I don't!
I would like to mention though with this that I think even the administration of that group becomes put out with the heat and lack of balanced discussions, they are not all on the anger wagon, it's just that those who are are very "loud"!
I hope this will change soon, without two opinions there isn't much of a discussion, on the other hand with name calling, paranoia and anger, there is NO discussion, so I stick over here..

[John Turberville]

"I hope this will change soon, without two opinions there isn't much of a discussion, on the other hand with name calling, paranoia and anger, there is NO discussion, so I stick over here.."

There are some who have intelligent things to say. But, it IS sort of like a religion.

[James Worede]

In that group you have to agree, can't question the merit of their opinions, dissenting opinions are not tolerated, some are claimed being not racist, but every other sentences are covertly racially loaded terms and down right racist, mysoginistic. I saw how they treated jacquin and Pacis Dream. I just withdraw myself from the group. I wrote something I shouldn't, because I lost my pacteincy. If there is no honest discussions, I don't see the reason to be part of that group. From the start, they oppose anything coming out the democrats or centerist republicans as bad. They consider Sarah Palin, Sean Hanity, Rush Limbaugh and talkshow hosts as brilliant intellectuals. So I see no sense of discussions with them. The last straw was somebody, I think Pacis posted about republican oppositions of the bill that would stop rewarding contracts to companies who would deny judicial recourses to their employees for misdeed done by companies or superiors or coworkers. I gathered some women were gang raped and harrased by Halliburton and Blackwater who are milking Wartime Spoils and have done so many businesses with in Azerbaijan, Burma, Indonesia, Libya, Iran and Nigeria. Those businesses conducted while our own Vice Dick was CEO. Then I read some of the women trying to find excuses for such greed of republicans whose votes were bought by these cruel and shamless companies. That did it. I said why waste my time. I thought these the so called conservative women would say, this is not acceptable instead they questioned the bill intentions. Anyway, I can stand these kind of blind "ideology". I see something is universally wrong.

[Vernon Windsor]

I use the group We The People and the posts there to illustrate many of the points I try to make in the Race in America group. It is a perfect ongoing example of the kind of contemporary face that racism wears today. They are helping me by being a continual "teachable moment."

[Vernon Windsor]

I know just what you mean.

[Rhon91]

Vernon, I bet you do get many examples from that group. A friend I grew up with but recently reconnected with is racist but doesnt think she is. I see alot of that lately, especially when people were up in arms about the President speaking at our children's schools. Bottom line there was racism and several people I grew up with or that Im friends with now tried to claim that it had nothing to do with race. Right.... I do think, at times, that there are people who do not realize they are racist, what do you think? Its hard to see the self sometimes...

[Vernon Windsor]

I would have to agree with that. I just had a conversation with a friend whose husband is in an environment where charges of racism are constantly leveled at him. He doesn't understand why that charge is brought up so often and so readily. It is not a part of his experience. Similarly from the other side of the fence, if your environment is such that racism against you is a constant presence, their is a tendency to attribute misunderstandings and felt slights to racism when that may not be the case. You should check out the conversations in my "Race in America" discussion group. They are pretty interesting. A couple of members of "We the People" joined (mostly to see if they could) and then quit.

[Madhatterat60]

I might have posted there out of spite. As did I....to 'kick the pricks' as it were.

[Just-a-Writer]

I don't even look into that group anymore. The last few times I did left me speechless. ME... speechless. It was kind of like watching a bus load of children fall into a gaping crack in the ground. You're stunned dumb, you feel like they're beyond your help, and you want to step away before you fall in too.

[Tina]

I was there reading just last evening, There is a large discussion going on right now about how we are all uneducated, prejudice, mean and unfair...on and on we go, I read for about an hour and went directly to iPEACE, where I belong...Blessings to ya all,