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In reply to the discussion: I am sick and tired of listening to pundits, commentators and, yes, DUers attacking Democrats [View all]Mersky
(4,969 posts)It's a way to turn people onto logic and critical thinking.
I'm not saying it's easy. I've been checking in, following DU since the dubya years. I really don't know what I would have done without DU after battling knuckle dragging arguments on various news comment boards, or trying to sort the litany of news (had little idea we'd ever arrive at the insanity of a tabloid business failure of a scrotus (scrotus now means POTUS, because I just can't capitalize/casually spell out the current admin, I physically can't do it when sober).
I like the internal party fight on DU. I like internal workings, like if we all were in a colonial pub, duking it out over how to distribute votes across potential territories...ya know the frontier.
In DU, this glorious public forum of a gorgeous bastion of old school, ideal internet for which I long, we have to survive.
Ummmah, lemme tell you, it is way, way different from being a lurker to a poster. I've stepped in it. I once posted like everyone knew me here, like I was delivering it out loud amongst friends. Oops. I realized my mistake after the wedding and enchilada encounter that week. It was rough. Thank goodness, I was literally only speaking for me, I didn't get batted down, but was forced to wander around feeling shitty. If you're wandering around feeling shitty, super extra self reflect.
It was good, I recounted all my formative exchanges. Nope, I've never been a racist. Was an egalitarian before I learned the word in Mrs Caan's class. Good grief, sheesh I won't be shallow like that. I um, kinda crave entirely new type folks in my life, and frankly I always feel I'm running out. Need more new folks.
Man, I can tldr myself pretty well. I don't even want to proofread myself most of the time. Hehhh, I'm working on my attitude here.
Cough, cough, suck in, cough....
Heh, I'm roundabout trying to say, I appreciate difficult positions to understand. I've been there, but I'll ask folks to please understand the limits of the house bullied and/or stymied by the executive/Senate branches. Because it basically comes down to a huckster from NY and a fuckall ejected in KY (basically the same population as my home town in TX, thats' Houston)v deciding whether or not my uterus counts in the entire USofA.