Economy
In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Light the Candles December 19-21, 2014 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)There are too many posts hidden or locked because of a rigidity of mindset that will kill the party, the country, the world.
And there are too many posts that linger, because of the conspiracy, for lack of a better word, of those who would use this site as a propaganda machine and a means of excluding debate, dissent, dissenters themselves, and oftentimes actual factual material that doesn't conform to the ideology, thus killing "Hope" by forbidding "Change".
That is why Tansy and I have this little safety zone fenced off for all of us. The actual scheme came from Hugin, of course, back when he was more active. The rest is history.
There used to be an active movement to ban sites because one or two of their posts violated some kind of "political correctness" test. Thankfully, that has mostly gone away, although some people do try to keep the old traditions alive, as you have seen.
I think that mostly the politically aware have taken refuge in specialty niches like ours. LBN is a joke, Good Reads usually aren't read or aren't good. There's too much Facebook on DU, and not enough of anything else.