Nothing good comes to Democrats from divisiveness

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79. Nope

People are just fine with attacking Democrats in familiar right wing ways, they're Trump-thinskinned when it comes to certain people, despite what they say, what they do and how they choose to do it.

Attacking the party and those in it is just fine for some people, as long as no one says anything less than adulatory about their personal heroes. And that's not even attacking, that's literally not posting adulation, even saying something about other Democrats and not mentioning them is considered an attack and treated as such.

The tension here is the double standards, the knee jerk reactions and deliberately inflammatory behavior of the newly awakened and the newly returned. There is a difference between criticism and attack, but people seem to choose attack most often, and they view literally anything that is not demonstrative of devoted adulation as a reason to attack.

Yes, politicians have such a reputation, but consider that when pointing out that certain politicians engage in this behavior is considered worthy of attack, silencing etc. that it's not quite a fair discussion that's being had.

There seems to be an unwillingness to actually engage in criticism of certain people in favor of savaging of anyone with a "D" behind their names, based on who they supported.

This is DESTRUCTIVE behavior, but it's not being done by Dems to themselves, we are able to discuss and disagree and criticize, but there is that element of the hyper-reactive inflammatory folks who are not part of the party, enjoy telling us so, and who are lobbing the grenades.

Calling out these divisive, destructive, discord sowing forces is something we all need to be doing, especially as the evidence mounts about just how many of these folks are malicious infiltrators.

Perhaps less sensitivity, fewer attacks and a more tempered tone would be in order. We should be able to criticize ALL democrats and those who caucus with D's right? Not just certain people? And no one should be attacked, silenced or smeared, right?