A Very Tearful Farewell

[2naSalit]

36. I wish you would stay...

Take a break, we all need to do that in these heated times.

We need your sane and eloquent voice here, your insight is like healing balm and sometimes like the cure to cancer around here. Your worth is far more than you might imagine.

With that said, I too, have been weaning myself from my time at DU though I am loathe to "miss" breaking info since I have limited news access otherwise. It's damaging to our psyches, individually and collectively... some of us handle it better than others.

This next four months will be the test of our resolve to remain a democracy, it will take everything we have in us to keep it and avoid having nothing less than tatters left come next year. I'm not looking forward to this next several months either.

Please consider taking a vacation, come back after the election or at least after this dark cloud moves out to sea. I would even consider begging but....

We are being flooded by trolls, bots, sleeper trolls and everything imaginable to disrupt and upset us such that we fight amongst ourselves, the debate was a strategic blow that landed pretty squarely on the mark. Once we get beyond this, and it will take at least until after the convention, to be marching in one direction as a force of we the people energy but I see it happening. It just won't be pretty getting there as we can see. I hope we all can remember this as we go on.

We love you, Nance, and your wisdom that you share with us even in this post. I understand your reasoning and need to step back, it's kind of dangerous here right now, but I hope you will return when things calm down and we can act more civilly toward each other again. The negativity is pretty dense right now.

I just hope you'll change your mind in time.