You know what's really lousy about the climate here on DU?

[LisaM]

14. So many thoughtful posts here.

It's a pleasure to "know" all of you. Many good points - very civil discourse - and actual bantering of ideas! I keep finding myself in testy little battles too, in fact, I scrapped with someone a few minutes ago and I honestly don't know if the arguments they presented were real or made up (they sounded made up). There's many things we'd all like, and yes, how to get there is the big thing. But we have to deal with the system we have.

The theme millenials have is to disrupt. It's become a term of art, people actually think it's good. It's a model that started with Amazon - disrupt the book business! - followed by companies like AirBnB, Uber, the list goes on. Disrupt the taxi business! Disrupt the hotel business!

Now we have cities full of empty storefronts and no book stores, a cab business that can surge prices up to $1000 a ride for certain events, landlords evicting people to turn apartments into short term rentals....... I prefer to work towards shared goals in a more constructive way. I think the Sanders campaign epitomizes this disruption model - it's gone from him just running for office to a goal of completely disrupting the Democratic party. I'd rather strengthen it.

Kudos to the OP.