WOW!  That was in 72 for me!  I feel rich now!

There's "data" to support any position you want to hold only a click or two away somewhere on the internet. There's really no point in arguing. I'm not arguing, I'm warning those that are so confident today that tomorrow may be a different story. You could step off the curb and be brain damaged in an instant. Alzheimer's, stroke, heart attack are very common and last I heard having money doesn't provide any immunity.

Basically what I see is hate for people whose only crime is to be somehow less fortunate. Even if that misfortune is of their own doing, which many here assert and which I deny, why does it warrant such hate? Perhaps we should just kill the poor. Line'em up and mow'em down. We'd probably be doing them a favor.

You can't see the hate that's been expressed throughout this entire forum because that isn't consistent with your own self image.

However I see a lot of hate which is why I've essentially given up on this site. I only respond to this one thread in particular because it's one in which I became engaged and when people make replies that specifically address me, I respond.

However I see the tenor of this forum and I see hate all around. If you don't see it perhaps it's because you don't want to see it. In any case it's just my personal opinion and I make no claim to infallibility.

I have no need to prove anything. I'm merely calling like I see it. If you wish to deny my opinion feel free to do so, however that doesn't change what I see.

As Potter Stewart wrote in the 1964 Supreme Court decision of Jacobellis v. Ohio, "hard core pornography" was difficult to define, but "I know it when I see it". Well I know hate when I see it and that was why after about a week of interacting in this forum I effectively withdrew.

My mistake was to occasionally check back on a few threads in which I had commented to see if there were any replies specifically directed at me and after a hiatus of a week or so there was and so I responded. But I don't need to "prove" the hate, I merely need to avoid it. There is no "proof" sufficient to change the way someone has already decided to look at things. In any case I won’t make the same mistake twice. 

Not really.  I think you see your own reflection.  And I see an arrogance that is not unexpected, if still very sad. for those that do not agree with you, it must be out of hate, not enlightenment.  For the purity of your own views cannot be denied.  Or so your thinking goes.

As I said, I dont hate who I was.  It is a part of me.  But for you to be correct, I must.  Sad that there is no more debate in this country.  The left does not know how to, because they do not even understand why they believe what they do, only that they "feel" it must be so, and that the opposition is always filled with hate for not agreeing with them.

I remember a country like that not too long ago too.  It was called the USSR.  You either agreed or were arrested for a hate crime.  Now you have your chance (you and the rest of the left) to model this country after that one.  I am sure it will make you happy - until the censors dont agree with you either.