I like to think that politics are like cigars and onions -- either everyone in the party does, or everyone does not. It should be the height of impoliteness to start a dust-it-up political fight if not everyone there is in the mood for such.
Now, I frankly sometimes rather enjoy a good revivialist political debate, Parlimentary style, but again, only if all parties are into it. And I certainly like to be able to have a beer with my opponent afterwards.
It sounds to me like this "Rush Junior" fellow was a troll, period, whether or not he had a legitimate ideological beef with the subject. Trolls are the kid that likes to stomp into the sandbox, kick around the sand, force all the nicer kids to leave, and then insist on his superiority for controlling said sandbox. (They're usually the doofus who's older than the other kids, because he got held back in school... and they're almost always "he"s also.)
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Date: 2009-03-09 12:58 pm (UTC)Now, I frankly sometimes rather enjoy a good revivialist political debate, Parlimentary style, but again, only if all parties are into it. And I certainly like to be able to have a beer with my opponent afterwards.
It sounds to me like this "Rush Junior" fellow was a troll, period, whether or not he had a legitimate ideological beef with the subject. Trolls are the kid that likes to stomp into the sandbox, kick around the sand, force all the nicer kids to leave, and then insist on his superiority for controlling said sandbox. (They're usually the doofus who's older than the other kids, because he got held back in school... and they're almost always "he"s also.)
Frankly, I just go find another sandbox.