Issues- important issues are getting subsumed here on GD, by petty squabbles

[cali]

there's a lot more interest in bickering bitterly than in discussing issues that effect us all.

It's kind of a shame. We get caught up in fighting over things that aren't issues that effect us.

I'm trying to recall if GD was always like this. I don't think so, but memory is often a faulty things.

Sometimes it's hard for me to remember this- but I do believe it's true of us DUers:

We all have FAR more in common (as far as political leanings, goals and objectives and humanism) than that which separates us.

[boston bean]

1. You are constantly starting OP's

regarding commentary you read on DU that you disagree with, in a pretty forceful way.

Did that slip your mind?

[cali]

2. No. I didn't claim I don't get caught up in petty squabbles. I acknowledged that

but almost all the OPs I post are issue based. did that slip YOUR mind, my friend?

[boston bean]

3. I think that could be said by anyone.

The ones you are criticizing for having a certain POV would say the same thing you are saying regarding their posts.

[cali]

5. no, it could not. not even close.

and I start very few threads that aren't issue oriented and most often I don't post in the ones that aren't.

but either you agree with what I said in the OP or you don't. It's not of great import to me, either way.

cheers

[Kaleva]

4. Shouldn't that be "affect us all."?

[davidpdx]

6. Thankfully DU is not representative of the party

if it were we would be screwed.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Last month GD was subsumed by 3 weeks of white-hot outrage over a picture of women in bathing suits.

so, you were saying?

[Blue_Adept]

8. Thankfully, there are other places on the site for discussion

GD is pretty much what it is now, a catch-all with a very loose set of rules.

There are numerous threads in LBN and politics that delves into the issues in a really discussion oriented sense. Best bet is to just trash GD and keep the eyes elsewhere.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. When I joined - in Nov 2004, there was much more respect for each other's opinions

much more activism, and much more camaraderie. BUT...we had a singular cause -
to prove Bush really didn't win the election. It is almost like we are better when
we have an enemy to focus on.

I think all the discord now is rooted in the gross disappointment that after years
of waiting for a dem president - we underestimated how much it mattered that
all a dem prez can do with a roadblocking congress is to insure nothing horrible
happens.

[QC]

10. kick

[FSogol]

11. Pot...kettle... you know the rest.

[countingbluecars]

12. Really? Really?

This from you!