[Rhodes22-list] Political Reply to Michael Wager...

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Tootle wrote:
> 
> Mike said, "I think that there is a misconception about what a forum can
> or should be. I became frustrated by being lectured by a certain political
> mindset seemed to take it upon themselves to indoctrinate the other
> participants in the forum with their particular views, to the exclusion of
> almost all else."
> 
> Mike you were not around at the inception of this forum.  Non sailing
> topics were at the heart of moving the forum off a sailing only topics
> medium to Michael Meltzer’s free for all.  
> 

Ed, In person, I expect you're a nice guy.  Here, I'm not really interested
in fruitless debating.  I have an open mind to a lot of subjects, and I'm
willing to consider different viewpoints.  Relentless diatribes and
accusations of being a sheeple, if one does not whole-heartedly agree with
you isn't debating, it's name calling, baiting and proselytizing, and hardly
serves to educate.  

No, I was not here when the list was conceived, or when it shifted to what
you describe as Michael Meltzer's "free for all."  From the recent input, by
Michael, I gather that he would disagree with the way you are interpreting
that shift.  Your input is valued -- you obviously are helpful when you
discuss solutions to boating and technical queries brought here, and for
that you should be commended;  however, there is a line that you need to
draw. There are more non-sailing topics that can be discussed on a
wide-ranging forum than your view of the political world.   

I don't want to argue with you.  I will discuss with you a range of topics
-- literature, world travel, gardening, brewing of beer, the excellent
oyster poorboy I just had for lunch, made from the oysters I hand picked
from the creek beds this morning...  but I won't engage in politics with
you.  It brings out the worst in me, and I would expect, not your best
either.

How's the weather where you are?  Trapped here in Maryland between the early
spring of the south and the winter snows of my homeland in Upstate NY,  I
sometimes feel like I am in no-man's land, not having the best of anything,
while those to the south and north have something...       

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