Well, yeah, but stop and think for a minute...who is "they"?

In terms of this forum, "they" turns out to be a very small group of individuals on this forum such as Amos, Bobert, and perhaps a handful of other Democratic sympathizers...who bother to go to these political threads. Mostly, in fact, it's just Amos. ;-)

This entire thread is your attempt to get back at Amos for his "Bush" thread.

These efforts are quixotic, both in your case and in Amos's case. I don't think it will make a particle of difference either way if a handful of political firebrands on this forum such as you, Amos, Ron Davies, me, Don T, and whoever else in your words get..."called on it at every turn and not be allowed to propagate their lies".

So what? How many people ever hear "their lies", etc? A few people here on Mudcat. Is anyone changed by hearing them? No.

So what I'm saying here is this. You are deluding yourself in imagining that you're performing some useful service to society by challenging Amos's political assertions at every turn, and he's deluding himself in a similar manner in regards to challenging your political assertions.

What you are REALLY both doing is giving in to an irresistible impulse to express yourself, oppose someone else, and try to get the last word in against them. You can't resist not doing it. It draws you back again and again like a drug habit, but it doesn't mean diddly-squat to the political fate of America. You're merely engaging in a behavioral addiction, that's all.

And so am I. ;-) That's why I just bothered to type this post. Nothing you say here will ever significantly change anything, and nothing I say here will either. Ditto for Amos.

We do it because we can't resist NOT doing it. Period.