Reply #14: Oliver Cromwell said - "Paint me as I am, warts and all" [View All]

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

The purpose of the unrec is specifically to keep "unpopular" viewpoints from the Greatest Page. The "popular" viewpoint here is that President Obama is the best president we have ever had, that he rarely if ever makes a bad decision, that he has "only" been in office for 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, a year, a year and a half, etc. and what do you expect? IF you have an issue with anything substantive and issue driven, that involves the President himself, I will be very surprised if it makes it to the Greatest Page ever again or if it does, it will be at the bottom of the Greatest list.

I don't really care if a post of mine ever makes it to the Greatest page, but I agree with cornermouse, in that all the portraits that depict the moles or flaws of the President or this Administration will be removed from the main gallery and confined to an annex. The Greatest Page will be highly sanitized and I have to think, quite a bit more boring. The unrec will make it a lot easier for the snipe patrol to keep unpopular viewpoints submerged. To use the gallery analogy again, we'll have a Thomas Kincaid sort of front page depicting a harmonious, bland, idealized world that exists only in one's imagination.

There is an idefatigueable squad of posters here who make it their life's mission to browbeat and ridicule the minority viewpoint. The unrec button was described by someone else as the FU button and I think that is ultimately how it will be used. It only has value if the numbers for and against are transparent, because otherwise it is too easy for a small group of bullies to use it
only for its demoralizing value, which we have already seen happen.