My thoughts on Appropriationgate*

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*Since all major LJ kerfuffles acquire a hackneyed name, let's at least assign it now.

As I mentioned I'm very busy, too busy to wade into this debate (if it can even be dignified by that term now) and too put off by a prior foray into it and the treatment of many of my friends to want to do so in any depth. But I will offer up one thought it has given me:

"One way in which a liberal may be disillusioned or driven to conservatism is criticism that his or her view is not liberal enough from people more concerned with enhancing their liberal credentials than meaningfully discussing the issue at hand."

Discuss.

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I know this is the impression looking on, but it isn't actually true. I even suspect that if enough people made a concentrated effort to speak gently and politely and simpathetically to everybody involved, the exhausted survivors would be able to agree on a couple of points, like the grass being green and cats being nice.