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In reply to the discussion: The latest "banning" (NYC_SKP) is an interesting lesson on REPUTATION. [View all]2banon
(7,321 posts)considering we have disagreed on a completely separate matter (The Draft), I take this rec from you as a gesture of good will. Your point about this being 'silly season' is well taken.
It just saddens me to see irrational actions in controlling the political message is ruling the day at this pre-primary point in time. Someone posted (in a different thread a day or two ago) something of a comparison to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago where things went off the rails for the party.
I did not weigh in to take issue with the perceived CAUSES of the party implosion and the UNDEMOCRATIC means to control the nomination process - although I think it's an interesting lesson imo in HOW NOT to alienate the base, HOW NOT to purge, HOW NOT to marginalize, HOW NOT to engage in all manner of machinations to promote and put forward an UNPOPULAR candidate (and pretend that he was popular)..
All that to say this banning reeks of the sort of machinations involved in controlling the nomination and nothing to do at all with misogynistic slurs.
The real issues of concern are lost in the fog of smoke and mirrors. and that's quite disheartening.