@hightor,
Personally, I judge people on
their character (in the case of online forums, their posts) rather than on their political or religious leanings. Just because they support a different side of politics to you
doesn't necessarily mean they are a bad person. It reminds me of another guy I used to know, he supported the labor party and absolutely despised the liberal party here, he was also a conspiracy theorist as much as the far-right nuts that post here - even some of the same conspiracies too for that matter. He wouldn't even let you finish what you were saying before cutting you off mid-sentence, but of course would demand you let him finish what he was saying without cutting him off mid-sentence. So like another labor party supporter I used to know, they were both just as narcissistic and hypocritical as the nuts that post here. I have nothing more to do with either of them, and cut them both out of my life and haven't looked back either. And that was because of their narcissism and hypocrisy,
not because of their political leanings.
So it just goes to show that one's allegiance to a particular political party doesn't mean they are a "good" or "bad" person. It reminds me of yet another guy I know; he'd always carry on about how evil Johnny Howard was as our former PM here, and I said something to the effect of "while I don't agree with everything he did, I don't disagree with everything he did either". But the first part
somehow "got lost in translation" with my mate, and he said sometime later something to the effect of "it made me angry when you were defending John Howard". Where it was like, so you only heard the
second part of what I said, but ignored the first part entirely...hmmmmmm? Well no, I wasn't "defending him", I clearly said: "while I don't agree with everything he done, I don't disagree with everything he done either".
In any case, the danger with taking politics too seriously is that
it can make you a target for the deranged far-right.
