Reply #73: I am back myself only just recently and find that I don't feel as at home here as I used to and with [View All]

[patrice]

you gone, grantcart, that fact will be the more so.

My problems have to do with how it appears that some people have decided how things should be for so many others. They may bear leftie labels and spout progressive patois, but the basic assumption, similar to that of the right wing, that one can determine absolutely "how things are" and therefore conclude absolutely "how they should be" is just another form of ends-justifies-the-means oppression to me, because they are assumptions that will hurt the powerless and, yet, they are justified by resistance to coercive power. We agree about the what. We disagree about the how.

Though I may be spending less time here myself, I'm going to miss you, grantcart. I'm going to miss how you always added something to either the factual base and/or the understanding of a topic. The DU will be less without you.