Perhaps I am a little late to the game. Of course I already knew there were supposed "gangs" on Sodahead especially right before the election. However, I thought with the coming of election day, this would soon die out and people would go back to enjoying each other's views absent of the "You libs" or "You cons" attacks. Yet the Presidency has already been determined and we are now experiencing a new political era and still people are so divided. How is this country supposed to become strong when there is so much hatred towards one another. If Sodahead is any indication of how the country is interacting, we are in trouble. Doesn't anyone believe in the saying, "United we stand, Divided we fall?" Aren't we the UNITED states or are we just conservatives/liberals, Republicans/Democrats, legal/illegal, etc.

What is happening on Sodahead is shameful. People don't even allow for a sharing of views because the moment you call them out on their hypocrisy, they label you with some blanket statement as to why you may think a certain way. Our country is not falling apart because of some "illegal" problem or the "spending" problem, we are falling apart because we are abandoning our Democracy/Republic. We are persecuting each other for our mere opinions. When people gang up on each other and decide to bestow such baseless insults, it only elucidates just how disconnected we are from one another and thus are not as "United" as we are expected to be. To me, the most unpatriotic thing one can do in a Democracy is to persecute people for their mere opinions. Here on Sodahead, people are robbing the spirit of Democracy in the name of Democracy. Can you say Hy-po-cri-sy?

Furthermore, why are people so weak minded that they have to join a gang in order to feel powerful? I'll admit, many of my Sodafriends are like-minded people whom I enjoyed the way they articulated their opinion. However, if you research my Sodafriends, you will find many who think polar opposite than I do. If you check out my raving habits, you will discover that I rave people I don't even agree with if they conveyed their thoughts in a intelligent manner. But I see others writing blogs, deriving polls, blocking, and leaving vicious comments based on the will of some Sodahead gang. I have seen Sodaheads I have never even encountered rave insulting comments merely because the commenter is in their "gang." I have seen blogs aimed at bashing a fellow Sodahead because the blogger is furious at loosing a debate. How is this intelligent debating?

I am calling on all Sodafriends and Sodaheads, to try and rid Sodahead of these toxins. Let's not continue to allow them to take over our beloved debating forum. Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans, Democrats, etc. don't allow these wicked individuals continue to poison our site. Many of us enjoy the art of debate and we want to continue to do so in an intelligent manner. We should all unite and take back our site!