With all due respect, Joe, all that I have seen from you on this list, pre-Horowitz, dealt with your desire to put up plaques to honor Vietnam veterans. Maybe, before I got on the list, you had other comments about other subjects pertaining to the 60s, but no one has been stopping you from doing that but yourself. I sent one post to Horowitz yesterday, ending that thread on my end, but I think you give him too much credit. And what about the Republican Party would you like to preserve? I am only slightly less an activist today than I was in the 60s when I was very active except that I am more concerned with local issues than I was then. However, I find your suggestion that there is a Win/Win solution to all problems no more realistic today than would have been if advanced 35 years ago. Jeff Blankfort Joe McDonald wrote: > > Thanks for the backup Ted. I was thinking today of the 60's List and my > predicament: to stay or unsubscribe and then a thought popped into my head > which I will mention now since you brought up the radical Right. I think that > David Horowitz has perhaps accomplished more than he dreamed of: The Radical > Left is fragmented now into little esoteric ineffective groups that are mostly > just flamers AND the Radical Right thanks to David and people like him have > managed to almost totally destroy the Republican Party. So to his credit, and > others who engage in his trap of trying to answer his rants, he, and others > like him on the Left and the Right, have accomplished quite a lot. Dialogue is > gone and just in-your-face non-negotiable rants and flame are left. > > We all know that our survival is in Win/Win solutions to all problems. With > the flamers and ranters monopolizing all the air space and making > non-negotiable demands this is impossible! > > I belong to another list where the moderator does not allow one bit of > flaming. The minute it starts she cautions it to end and if it continues then: > PEOPLE ARE KICKED OFF THE LIST! > > If this list is to survive there must be perimeters. Out and out provocative > posts: Rants and Flames, cannot be allowed. Also really stupid posts that are > misspelled and do not make sense cannot be allowed. This of course means that > the moderator > must READ all the posts and make the hard decisions that this kind of > leadership demand: to post or not to post that is the question. For us members > it is to subscribe or unsubscribe that is our question. > > But dammit! I was part of the 60's and think I have a right to be part of this > list and participate in a way that does not get me so extremely disgusted and > upset everyday. Even back in the day we made decisions like that. Certain > people who did not pull their weight and just caused trouble were kicked out > and the others had to "respect" where everyone was coming from...or at least > make an effort to. This is not happening now. What we have is nothing less > than tabloid sensationalistic BS dominated by a tiny handful of people. I am > going to hang on here and see if anything positive can happen but if it does > not happen soon I AM OUTTA HERE! > > Peace Out Country Joe McDonald >
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