Yes, if the discussion was fair, intriguing, intelligent, ect.. That's a lot of assumptions.
Further, youre assuming that all parties are willing to accept that they possibly could be wrong.. an assumption I'm not willing to make here....
But the offshore - theRX in general- isn't diverse enough to have balanced conversation. It's one sided. It's the same people, saying the same thing, over and over again.. It's become so little about issues. it's almost as if no one has original opinions on this anymore, they all just toe the company line, spewing whatever political spin has been feed out there for the party backers to gobble up.
We're not having debates on complex issues where all sides are presented by intellectuals who've studied these concepts. We're essentially yelling about why red is better or why blue is a better color.
I get your sentiment. That's it's an amazing group of people, that generally have respect for each other... But I'm saying that the damage that politics does here, right now, for simply screaming about what color is better has larger, deeper implications. It's not that only bad people feel this way. I'll admit it. I've lost a lot of respect for people that I had no problem with prior because of what I see as ignorance and short sidedness. I'm absolutely positive the feeling is mutual.
That's my main problem with all of this... That what brought us together, the forum, our love for sport, gamblings ect... We should be respecting our favorite online hang out instead of severing so many relationships and creating so many 'enemies' or even a 'dislike list'. Forums run on contribution of new material by a vast amount of posters. We need to be growing that number, not shriking it.
I'm just trying to look at theRX as brand. It's something we want to grow. Politics shouldn't be apart of our brand, it shouldn't mater if your a right wing nut, or a left wing crazy...
The conversation we are having here is doing nothing to solve anything. With the demographic here, it's a very one sided conversation. It's rarely informative. I'm just repeating myself here... But basically, I'm saying that change isn't happening on theRX. Now, I get that public opinion has a lot of power, but if you want to know what happens on this forum when people are allowed to talk Politics, just look at the Poly forum we have. It's literally the most unmoderated area of the forum. Impossible to control reactions, hurt feelings, hatefuliness. it's the wild west down there...
My point is I believe, and yes I could be wrong, but I believe that this has damaged the growth of theRX.. and given football season is HERE, influx of newbies or people that don't post often, that the kinds of political rhetoic that is happening in the offshore is not inviting or welcoming.
