I'll readily admit that some of my fellow conservatives are hung up on posting links to obscure articles which, really, not everyone cares to read.  This isn't supposed to be school.  Of course it shouldn't be a place where we start our messages by tattling on our fellow members either, as you began your message here, so it is going to take cooperation and a bit of grace to make this a civil place.

Again, civility is as civility does.  Perhaps you feel dumped on because you are one of few liberals here.  But if you want to forward the points of liberalism, why not discuss why you think the way you do, why something seems right, why something seems wrong, and so forth.  Maybe we can inderstand each other better

I realize that we, as a nation, have all gotten away from talking to each other like that, and instead crawl around in the weeds for dirt disguised as data to roll into balls to heave at each other.  It's the national hobby, but how successful has that been? 

There is room for civility and discussion.  And if no one else is doing it, some of us can start it.  Now, I'm not saying no one is doing it, but we can push the discussion more in that direction.

And by the way, just because someone doesn't use the words "this is my opinion" before every statement doesn't mean he is preaching something he got from stone tablets carved by God--and we should not necessarily challenge him on that basis.  Do you say "what's your source?" to everyone who states something that sounds like a fact in your daily conversations?  No, none of us do, unless it's something way outside the norm.  We all have beliefs based on a million things--how we were raised, how we were socialized, the schools we attended, etc.  I don't carrry a list around so I can tell everyone why I believe the way I do.  That would be ridiculous, wouldn't it?