BLOCKING: How do you know your view is correct, if it is the only one you allow yourself to see?

The reason they block is pretty much as you state... toss in infantile mentality and you have many of them pegged perfectly.

The move to remove or weaken the block feature has been going on for a while and the SH team won't listen. It's like the Leaderboard and Level garbage they started... kid stuff and already people are proving exactly what I said would happen is happening. I have been receiving the same topic notifications by the same people repeatedly to the point I'm seriously thinking about blocking Sodahead from sending me emails by marking this site as spam. They don't care.

Look, you want to stop the blocking feature from being abused then limit blocking to five people and anyone else after that you have to report directly to the team and prove you have reason for blocking them like harassment.

I engage people all the time and I do it in many ways. For some, I go for the jugular simply because I know these people well enough to know they are lying or you just can't get through to them being polite. The one thing I hate most is a hypocrite with liars being next and having a closed mind would come next. Some people pursue an agenda where their view always has to prevail and they won't listen to anyone else.

Over the past two years, I have been pushed from the political left to the political right but always keep my feet firmly in the center. However, the political left has become everything they claim the political right is leading to self destructive behavior. Liberal Democrats forgot that half their party are Conservatives so in attacking Conservatives, they split their party against itself. By putting all their focus on Obama, they stopped focusing on their party as a whole so that during the November elections, they wasted all their time attacking Republicans and the Tea Party because of their resentment and anger at how they treated Obama... they are the opposition and this is what the opposition is supposed to do. In fact, had the Democrats opposed the Republicans more during the Bush Administration, they could have stopped most of the things they attack them for during his administration. Instead, people like Obama never once opposed Bush... NOT ONCE and yet Obama is exempted and Bush gets all the blame when in truth, Obama is a Bush Democrat who supported him when almost the entire Democratic Party was in opposition and he voted for Bush more than the Republicans did. While they should have been promoting their own candidates leading up to the November elections, they wasted all their time on the attack against the right and all that effort they put into getting Christine O'Donnell defeated in an election she had already lost the moment she won the Republican nomination represents how blind they had become.

You and I once had a debate about the Neoconservatives as I define them as rightwing Liberals because throughout their history at every point, their political ideology and it's adherents have been called Liberals. Since that time, many others have provided me with additional information about this and about other members of the Neoconservatives who called themselves Liberals even after they switched parties to become Republicans where, until the 1980's, many Neocons had no problem telling you they were Liberals. However, as the two parties became more polarized and Liberal became a dirty word in the Republican Party... they stopped calling themselves Liberals and even stopped calling themselves Neocons as that's what other people call them and it's why most Conservative Republicans actually don't know what a Neocon is or if they are one. In the same way, Socialists infiltrated the Democratic Party as their own parties one by one became defunct and at first called themselves Socialists, then they stopped because being a Socialist became a dirty word and instead began calling themselves Liberals. Even into the 90's and up to today, most Liberals deny they are Socialists in the Democratic Party when the split between the Neocons and Liberals inherently did create a left vs right among Liberals that ultimately led to the counter culture and the Neocons switching parties. before the Neocons switched sides, Liberals could say they were not Socialists because the Neocons continued calling themselves Liberals... but when they switched parties, the Socialist infiltration of the leftwing Liberals became undeniable. Progressives were also rightwing and leftwing as you couldn't call Teddy Roosevelt a leftwing Progressive although he was definately a Progressive... a rightwing Progressive and they're a totally different breed. Leftwing Progressives have a huge problem in that they cannot and will not admit they make mistakes, they want change for the sake of change and when things go wrong... they just walk away and deny knowing anything about it... rightwing Progressives were Conservative light essentially and were Social Conservatives for the most part who used government where it was needed to create progress but then removed government when they achieved their goals and they supported charity over welfare. But as Neocons switched sides, Progressive Republicans were the first group to go and you can actually look back at that time to see them becoming Conservative Democrats... the Rockefellers are one of many families who made this changeover.

You and I can debate over issues like this and I have enjoyed our debates because the issue is to discuss and learn which you cannot do if you block people because their views differ from your own.

I have three people blocked... one who is a black racist who attacked me in my own group who likes to blindside people, another who misunderstood that my opposition to both sides at times means I'm an anarchist like him so he went nuts on me when he realized I wasn't an anarchist and the third I have completely forgotten why I blocked them but if I remember we were both blocked from talking to one another by Sodahead lol.

The rightwingers who have blocked me on this site are generally haters even other rightwingers have gone after and the majority of people who have me blocked are leftwingers because of the reasons you state. A few of them I have even told to simply stop replying to me and I'll stop replying to them but they want the last word and the last word is always jabbing me with a sharp stick... and if you poke a tiger with a sharp stick while locked in a cage with them, well that's not exactly the smartest thing to do lol.

But DB... Sodahead will not listen and too many people feel they are entitled to block anyone they don't like which in turn means they can block hundreds of people... some even brag about that.