2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary WILL NOT Lobby Against The TPP [View all]ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)By "adult", I mean people who will take allies where they can get them to move forwards on the things we agree on, rather than use politics merely as a way of getting that sweet feeling moral superiority, as a substitute for putting in any of their own effort. You ask the majority of the screamers on DU what they've done themselves to get the more liberal candidate in any race elected (the primary or the general), and most of them then hem and haw, and say its someone else's problem. The irony is that I've almost certainly done more for the left than basically all of them, including getting two Democrats (Wyden and Merkley) elected (both of whom know me on a first name basis), even though I disagree with them about the NSA, among other things.
I don't recall saying anything bad about Senator Sanders, for instance. Hell, I even called out MokTohRah for bashing Bernie in a way that seemed patently unfair.
But at the end of the day, DU is what it is. Entertainment for extremists. Not activism.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community