This place in many ways has gone off the deep end. RE: Used car salesman
I am going to break a rule. I don't care if this post gets hidden. This needs to be said.
I checked in here from time to time during the Bush years. DU was mainstream progressive blog along the lines of Daily Kos. Since Obama was elected everything changed.
You can hardly come here without people bashing the President. Calling him a sellout for not getting a single payer system for healthcare (even though he never said he would do it on the campaign) Now the law is going into effect, a contest topic here is how the president is a sellout on healthcare. The fact the millions have access to care that they didn't have before doesn't seem to matter to ideological purists.
On Russia and Crimea. People are calling the President a hypocrite because of the Iraq war. The fact the President opposed the war is irrelevant.
To use the words of a frequent poster here the President is a POS used car salesman.
With "friends" like these who needs enemies.
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Disagreeing with Obama =RW?
OK.
I disagreed with Clinton on NAFTA. Did that make me a republican?
being thrown around here and the lack of equality in the use of the term "salesman" 
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Nor did we ever bash prominent Democrats like Joe Lieberman or Zell Miller. That sort of thing just never happened.
It's still, BY FAR, the best news aggregator on the internet.
But the discussions have gotten ridiculous. They always have been in many ways, but it's gotten amped up lately. Day in and day out, people who would probably love sharing a drink together bitching and moaning and bitching and moaning at each other. I will freely admit that I am guilty of this.
However, as others have pointed out, it's really just a small number of posters who are causing the bulk of the ridiculousness. For the most part, most people are cool most of the time. We have a few attention-seekers who simply cannot allow someone else on the internet to be wrong!
I suppose that's what happens when your team has the field, and there are fans who want their guy to pitch, but the other guy is pitching and throwing too many balls and not enough strikes.
Something like that.
Thou hast trolled, poorly.
Paging MIRT/Admins, we need a...
this tired old strawman.
This guy is ragged and threadbare, please let him go. 
either way, this is bullshit. It's disinformation, it's poor reading comprehension (ever hear of conditional "If--Then" statements and compound sentences?), it's obsessive, it's destroying Progressive unity, it's unproductive.
Anyone who thinks you can inherit a full blown war and just end it like you would close a door is a woefully simplistic thinker.
Ugh, the whole situation is making me so angry…… 
But I continue to do my share to help as much as I can. That's the best I or anybody can do. 
They wouldn't be doing their jobs properly if you felt otherwise. There are couple of sites that direct their members here to do exactly what you describe in your o.p.
As stated above, Markos doesn't tolerate it, and hasn't lost a thing by actually enforcing his TOS. If the rules were enforced, I think Admin might find that any possible losses would make it safe for a lot of folks like yourself to return, and actually work on the stated mission of this board:
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