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In reply to the discussion: I love the new meme: FDR Democrats are hurting the 99% by focusing on Snowden [View all]Politicub
(12,163 posts)Your post is about an opinion some people hold. It's not a meme in the traditional sense.
Your post is thought provoking, though.
There are people who are hungry, homeless, sick or have any number of afflictions that affect them because of no fault of their own. Worrying about "the constitution" is difficult on an empty stomach.
Voting rights and women's rights are vital. Children are killing each other and themselves with handguns they find
Now that I think about it, the discourse on DU often revolves around Snowden these days. Or at least it dominates the front page.
Meanwhile, none of the other social issues that need addressing are going away. If anything, they're becoming more acute.
But I don't believe thoughtful discussions about poverty, for instance, lend themselves to soundbites.
Snowden has become a symbol that people use to describe themselves more than a real cause. It seems there's an unspoken Snowden Scale that a subset of posters use as a kind of purity test.
IMHO, Snowden has become an indulgence for some. A few quick searches revealed that Snowden is the sole topic of interest for many of the posters upthread.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
But don't insult us by acting like it's some kind of virtue.