[PornoDoggy]

I don't find dig's tone or attitude substantially different from others who participate in political discussions on Oprano, except of course he's coming from the left. His "flat out refusal to accept or consider opposing viewpoints" does not make him unique either.

I think dig's description of the good democrats/bad republicans is sophmoroic and simplistic in the extreme. I don't find dig's arguements that one party is right and another wrong, evil, or immoral any more or less fundamentally flawed than the idea that liberals believe in a foreign ideaology, for example.

When a person makes the statement that there is no point in debating someone because "he is brainwashed", it is obvious that "abandoning discussion and retreating behind [a] comfortable party line" started before I jumped in.

The question about who first started using the hater line was sincere, BTW.