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I'd rather people were passionate about politics and shaping their lives than not, even if it's getting tedious-it's the home straight to one of the biggest political events of our generation after all. Are you Glaswegian/Scottish yourself? I'm surprised how many non-scots are voting Yes and are interested, even non scottish friends abroad are messaging me saying its exciting and it's all over their news programs.
Obviously, some people have a bad way of expressing their affiliations-I don't think there's much genuine malice out there but Scotland's had a history of partisan conflicts within the Union and I think a lot of the terminology of it has been normalised as a result. The No campaign seems happy to be passive and portray themselves as the victims for the most part any time someone calls someone a twat on twitter it's held up as some sign of religious or social implosion, David Cameron himself was warned by the Police because he was implying there would be an explosion of social violence outside polling stations, which is an entirely unfounded notion that risks being a self-fulfilling prophesy when banded about like that by people who should know better.
Billionaire Tom Hunter's politically neutral website has been a really good resource for helping me to understand the issues and get a handle on them. http://scotlandseptember18.com/
There's too much apathy in Scotland, made worse by the de-industrialisation and benefit culture that was left over. I'm not a fan of Salmond, and I don't relish the possibility for real problems in the short term, but I'm hopeful for a better future and more opportunity in Scotland as the result of a Yes vote because under Westminster it's just not happened, and I don't see why Scotland being independent means that the UK as a politically co-operative, friendly entity of allies has to end just because we get to control our own affairs.
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I live in Glasgow and the Yes punters on FB are constant, in fact they are worse than that. Its every day, multiple times. I've deleted a few also as it just too much.
I think the premise of the yes campaign is good, but there is far far too much inconstancy and not enough hard confirming facts plus if we vote yes and the shit really hits the fan there is no turning back. I'm quite happy the way things are the now and don't want to risk it on something this serious so therefore i'll be voting no.
Also the No voters on my fb are very quite in comparison, they haven't said a lot and are continuing to do this.