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In reply to the discussion: My swan song, come get your grave dancing on, if that's your thing. [View all]Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)In a post about Obama being one of the all time greatest Presidents, I lamented that you could not point out any flaw or disagreement about Obama without being labeled an "Obama Hater." I said that he had done many great things socially, but sided with the financial industry, NSA spying, "Look forward, not back" when referring to Bush/Cheney and Iraq... I said he didn't make my top 10. For this I was banned from the Obama Group. As usual, I clicked on an interesting post on the front page without looking at the group it was from.
Are we so thin skinned that we cannot even offer opinions now? I too am frustrated with the hyper-purity evolving here. I don't do snark or dance on graves(but a few rare times I lost my cool and responded before calming down) and I have never put anyone on ignore. I can say this though, when you stop listening objectively and only want to hear like minded views, you have become like the RW nut jobs that are too angry to listen to reason.
I believe much of this OP, but I take hope that Bernie will not stop organizing and leading us to pressure our government to clean up its act. Bernie losing makes it much harder without the Bully Pulpit, but we can continue to grow and apply pressure. Climate Change and removing the root cause of our government corruption are too important to give up!