My 1st post in several weeks, probably last for a while.

[madfloridian]

I just had to say some things.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251517107

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. You said them very well, my dear mad...

Thank you.

[SoapBox]

2. As I said in your other post...

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I wish you wouldn't leave...unless it's just on a short vacation.

We need all the voices of logic and fact we can find...it certainly is not going to get any easier as we progress to elect Bernie...the filthy slime will keep coming.

I stumbled on a thread today, race oriented, that made me so furious I could hardly think straight...it was disgraceful, distasteful and dishonest..."seething" was used by someone here.

I have blocked that poster, trashed the thread and trashed the group...I just SO wish that all that blocked stuff, would never show up in Trending ever again.

Please come visit...keep in touch with us...we need you.

[madfloridian]

11. The danger in not leaving for a while...

is that I will say some things I will greatly regret later. Safer to leave for a while.

[Lifelong Protester]

3. Oh, and I was there in Seattle

and I don't like being called a "white supremacist" either.

[hootinholler]

10. Were any bottles thrown?

I wasn't able to see any in the videos I've seen. It seems to be repeated loudly and often by a certain contingent of posters on DU.

[Lifelong Protester]

12. I didn't see any bottles

but mostly oldsters, and near oldsters, who wanted to hear about Social Security and Medicare for all.

[eridani]

13. Nope--no bottles thrown. Again, the decision to give BLM the mic was made by--

--two representatives from the Social Security Works coalition who happened to be onstage at the time. Sanders deferred to that decision, and the boobirds should have as well.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. If you have to go just remember that this is just an internet forum.

This is not real life, and the posers that want to insult you...force you off are just posers.

[haikugal]

5. I've missed you...

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. You should stay and hang out in here.

They'd like nothing better than to silence you. That's one of their goals - to silence all Progressive voices.

My blood's still boiling from being called a "useless, white supremacist" and it's going to take a long time to forgive that slanderous phrase. A very long time.

Don't leave! Bernie needs you and so does DU!

[davidpdx]

7. I remember you as being one of the outspoken and sane voices in the 2008 primary

and general election. That when I went from a lurker to a member. So many people from back then are gone.

I hope you will take a few weeks to relax and then come back.

[historylovr]

8. Your education posts were the reason I joined after lurking so many years, so I could rec them.

But, it's ugly season here, and so I don't blame you for taking time off.

[Cleita]

9. ....

[eridani]

14. What about checking in with the group occasionally and not going to GD-P? n/r

[awoke_in_2003]

15. You are the most important voice

in the education forum. I have learned a lot from your posts. Take care of yourself

[carolinayellowdog]

16. this group in 2015 can be what DU as a whole was in 2002

even if we have to relinquish the site as a whole to the swarming hatemongers