Reply #23: Writer ? .... I guess it's you and me alone .... [View All]

[Trajan]

No matter how you slice and dice it: Approximately one half of the DU membership is going to take their marbles and go home come November .... They will be angry ... They will consider their own needs above and beyond the needs of the greater population ... They will either vote for McCain, or they will vote for a write in, or they will vote for none of the above (which is essentially a vote for McCain ..) ...

Or; they will hold their nose and vote for the very person whom they profess rabid and extreme hatred in the here and the now .....

Frankly : I am a consensus guy .... I never expect to get what I want : I always expect to give a little and hope to get something back in return ....

I don't believe I will, but I have for the first time thought about exiting DU in the near future .... I have never been one to declare I will leave this forlorn forum, but I have to ask myself what I have in common with those who promote their own ego above the good of the most of us ....

I agree in principle with the greater number of policies and ideas that are promoted here ... But I will not vote against my own interest .... And while I will not leave DU, I already recognize that I have a basic disagreement with most of the Candidate-Partisans here ....

I cannot feel confident that the bulk of DUers actually care for anyone other than themselves .....

There is no attempt to ameliorate disagreements, no expressions of brotherhood and understanding ... No vision of a inclusive future : Only a desire to smack down the 'opposition' in our own camp .. To use the very rhetoric of our rivals in the GOP in order to promote their own egotistical preferences to the exclusion of all else .... It is ugly here beyond expectation .....

I will vote for Obama ... I will vote for Hillary ... I will vote for either OR both, in any order ....

But the fact is: DU has proven itself to be a dead end as far as unity is concerned .... The brotherhood is dead here .....

And it is not your fault ..... and it is not my fault .....

Apparently: Consensus has no place here ..... Not when utilitarian inclusion can be trumped by self interest ....

I think Skinner is wrong: The animosity generated in these forums will carry forward as tacit vanity .... The 'losers' camp will take potshots at the 'winners' until the next opportunity to knock another imperfect candidate down presents itself ....

But hey: You have my vote ...... Guaranteed ....

One bright spot though: Democrats outside of DU WILL unify ... no matter what the crybabies here whine about ....