I think we need a special High Dudgeon forum

[Jackpine Radical]

where people in need of their daily dose of outrage can go to feed on Warren, on Blago was Railroaded, on How Dare He Appoint a Warmonger to SOS, etc.

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[marylanddem]

1. I am outraged about the first and last, not the middle one.

And why take potshots at people expressing themselves?

[deaniac21]

2. It's been GD for years.

[Poll_Blind]

3. I now regularly look elsewhere for productive discussion.

There is some here but the signal-to-noise ratio has dropped to the point that it sometimes feels pointless. The hyperbolic outrage, once groced as meaningful, has been twisted and eaten itself like an oroboros until there is an ever-shrinking ring of useful information and the remainder...mostly teeth and claws.



PB

[Donnachaidh]

4. that's another way to marginalize the expression of outrage

But the apologists would love it.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Half the threads on DU are about Warren right now.

I can understand people being pissed, but c'mon. It's about a two-minute prayer. The guy was picked by Congress anyway.

The country and the world are about to go off the cliff, with looming economic and ecological disaster, combined with a total breakdown of trust in our institutions, and people are all frothed up about which particular idiot delivers an appeal to some hypothetical supernatural entity that He, She or It suspend the rules of the Universe in our behalf, even though to do so would probably work to the detriment of most of the other several billion denizens of this spinning mudball. Get real, people. If ya gotta be in a snit, then get in a snit about something that matters.