In a recent article it was announced that Alec Baldwin has decided he is no longer interested in acting.  Mr. Baldwin, apart from his roles in such movies as “The Hunt for Red October” and “Glengarry Glen Ross”, is also know for being a highly opinionated man with a volcanic temper.  He has, in the past, called for Republican Henry Hyde and his family to be dragged out into the street and stoned to death and has described his own daughter as a “rude, thoughtless little pig.”  And in this most recent story about his decision to leave acting, we learn that he doesn’t mind having ended his relationship with his girlfriend of seven years because “I’d rather be lonely than wrong.”   This statement is both shocking and entirely unsurprising;  Mr. Baldwin abuses friend and foe, including family because he would rather be alone than admit he was wrong.  It explains quite a lot, really.

Now, Mr. Baldwin is no hero over at Free Republic.com.  His decidedly Liberal point of view and consistently over-heated, dishonest and hysterical declarations about Conservatives (not to mention the garbage he points at his supposed loved ones) earns him nothing but derision at FR and deservedly so.  And yet, many Freepers (particularly the head Freeper himself) share this very trait they hate so much in Mr. Baldwin.  Enemies are not just wrong, they are evil incarnate.  And, even the slightest degree of disagreement is cause for breathless, hyper-critical and dishonest denunciations of people who are, in most other respects, their allies.

Currently, with Obama and Congressional Democrats trying to remake this Democratic Republic into a Socialist Democratic country in the  European socialist mold, Islamic terrorists regaining their strength and motivation  and our very Constitution hanging in the balance, Jim Robinson has decided that the biggest enemy that the world faces right now is…Mitt Romney.  Mr. Robinson has gone so far as to insist that not only was Mitt Romney strongly pro-abortion but that Romney himself is a “big government socialist butcher.”  And, when it is pointed out to him that Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have (or at least had at the time) a different view of Mr. Romney despite having seen the same videos and same information Mr. Robinson is presenting as proof of Mr. Romney’s myriad sins against humanity, this was his reply “(It) Doesn’t matter to me what Rush Limbaugh or anyone else says about the man.” and “Some on your list of conservative leaders may be in line for a sudden demotion if they continuing pushing the RINO line.”  Mr. Robinson, meet Mr. Baldwin.  You have at least one trait in common.  Jim Robinson would rather be “alone” politically than admit even the possibility of being wrong.

Free Republic has been and is today a great resource for news gathering and the dissemination of the Conservative view point.  Mr. Robinson has done Conservatism and the country a great favor with his site.  However, when the dialog goes from simple disagreement to accusations of “butcher” and “pig” over quotations that have been deliberately taken out of context and exaggerated for political gain, the benefit of such a site is diminished greatly.  Mr. Robinson has declared Free Republic to be off limits to those who support Mitt Romney.  At the same time, he is using his site to promote a view of Mitt Romney that borders on slander.  Yes.  It is his site and he can use it as he wishes.  Likewise, Mr. Baldwin has the right to say what he says, regardless of how idiotic, abusive and destructive to his own family they may be.

The big problem with the attitude of “I’d rather be lonely than wrong” is that it is tragically short sighted.  You may not “need” others right now, but you will in the future.  And when you do, you will in fact be completely alone.  We all have the right, whether it be online or elsewhere, to burn our bridges.  However, what we don’t have the right is to then expect in the future, when we find that we actually do need others, that we can just demand help from those we drove away all those years ago.  No human being is perfect.  No one gets all of the facts 100% right all the time.  Insisting that your interpretation of the facts is the only possible interpretation, particularly in the face of evidence that others you respect have a differing opinion, is nonsensical and ultimately self-defeating.

Mr. Baldwin is likely to end up old, alone and even more bitter about life than he is now.  We can only hope that Jim Robinson and the merry band of yes-men who want to drive out all those who disagree with them, can discover reason before they follow Mr. Baldwin down the path of self-destruction.  And for what its worth, here’s hoping Mr. Baldwin can find reason as well.

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