Difficult post to make but

[TayTay]

We had a thread about the ads that were run in the early primaries and we had a visitor. I think her comments were taken out of context. I really don't think she came in here to snark and deride but to make an honest comment based on personal experience.

I would hate to think that we have victim's disease in here and automatically assume the worst about anyone who doesn't automatically post in the purely positive. The person being accused tends to want to defend and it can turn into a downward spiral of accusations when there was no original bad intent. We don't want that. It's what we hate about various 'bad threads' in other DU groups and on other blogs and such. I think it can be handled better without engendering bad feelings.

I love this group because it's a refuge and because we have meet so many wonderful people here who, generally, agree about Kerry. But we will have the occasional person who posts something neutral or even in disagreement. I would hope that we are secure enough in our own beliefs that we can handle a mild disagreement with accusations and without doing what he ourselves point out is unfair in other threads on DU.

I am not mad at anyone or anything. But I would hate to see a positive forum like this get too defensive or push people away who might want to post in here occasionally. Dissent is fine. Inviting someone in who might disagree mildly from time to time can be a good thing and can give us some perspective.

I know, I know, 'who died and made you the Queen of Sheba TayTay?' I know. But I'm just saying, I would hate us to become the thing that we ourselves can't stand. We are better than that, our arguments are better than that and this forum is better than that.

Peace!