I really disagree with Skinner's statement about who is welcome on DU

[herding cats]

91. DU isn't the Democratic Party.

It's a private website where we work toward electing more Democrats and currently bemoan the lunacy of the fringe takeover of the GOP. If you're not happy with the constraints of the site, that's ok. No one is going to hold your personal convictions against DU against you in the actual Democratic Party. However, DUers will hold your protest vote against you here. See? Not the same entities?

I've never understood people equating DU with the Democratic Party. It's just silliness. People need to stop twisting themselves into knots trying to link the two as one. They're just not even close to the same entity!

I work with people like you and we reach out to non voters, youth coming of age to vote for the first time and even marginal Republicans. By the time I come here just want to relax, recharge and regain my focus. What I don't want is to have to deal with more angry protest voters on their freaking soapboxes about how they were safe, morally right, making a stand against the system. I'm over that excuse X a million!

For what it's worth, I live in Texas and here protest voters like yourself (I've dealt with on a personal level) have been saying they were in a safe blue district/city, so it didn't matter. Um, no, that's not how it works in a GE, and I'm the person who has to explain all that to them. Seriously, what the fuck? I'm so over it I can't even begin to express to you how sick of this foolishness I am. Yet I'm still polite and work at being educational to them.

So, all the reindeer games are just childish to me. None of those playing games know what they're talking about from another person's perspective, and none of the people playing these games care to actually step outside their bubble where they're reinforced and safe and explore another perspective they're not familiar with already. Everything is as they see it through their private lens.