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Sees it just works better if you say what you mean and leave off the useless labels that only serve to inflame readers one way or the other.

• bmelton 13y ago
  I disagree. In the five years I've been posting here, what I've found is that anybody that wanted to get offended would be offended whether I referred to the parties by name or as abstract schools of thought. If I hadn't put the party affiliations, and had gotten something wrong, I'm not naive enough to think that anybody would have been fooled by that. Had anybody felt that I misrepresented either party, I'd have been corrected, labels or not, only instead of being able to respond directly, I'd have hard to parse through layers of obscurity to figure out which metric was even the topic of discussion. People are going to be pissed if they feel that their positions are slighted; I just figure the better tactic is to avoid insulting the position vs. obscuring which position I insult. And, as I stated, each of the positions I referenced is, to my knowledge, equally as likely of standing a chance at solving the matter at hand as the other.