you're not the only one! I got hidden the other day myself, I deserved it, foul language.

It's hard to be pleasant when things get so rowdy around here. Ignore is my friend here.

You have nothing to apologize for.

It really does seem that Hillary supporters and Bernie supporters really are from different planets. The divide is often demonstrated to be as wide and visceral as the divide between Republicans and Democrats.

My candidate preference - for Bernie - has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with policies and character.

you are correct, and have nothing to apologize for.

Next time, don't even try to address them directly. Something about pearls etc.

anyone who gets offended by cuss words should probably stay off DU. So, I don't feel as though you owe me an apology

As far as who understood what:

I used to say to our audiences: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935), University of California Press, 1994, p. 109.

I have also experienced a lot of posting that I am all but certain is done in bad faith. So, if a post says X, I don't necessarily assume that the poster actually believes X.