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In reply to the discussion: Don't know who is winning the messaging war but I find the suggestion here we're losing disturbing. [View all]RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)a lot of people here have very thin skins when it comes to their politics, and especially outsiders (newbies, "independents" and others) trying to tell them how to do things. Hell, many of them won't abide criticism from even their own. You should see the infighting that goes on here -- the entrenched camps within the party.
BECAUSE the owners very strongly do not want criticism of Democrats, the Democratic Party, etc. I think that's pretty well outlined in the stuff you signed to join, right?
BECAUSE it's the internet.
I am personally a bit more tolerant of your kind of "contribution" (air quotes because it's not seen as most others here as such, esp. from newbies), and I'm not against reframing, per se, but if you're talking Lakoff, I have a huge problem with that. I just can't grok it.
If you lean mostly Dem, if you wish the Dems to win big in Nov. so we can start to get things back on an even keel here, I suggest you stick around -- that is, if you survive your intro thread here, and IF you can manage to keep some of your sure to be less popular ideas to yourself. Or "frame" them better.