Reply #96: Agree 1000% [View All]

[Goodnevil]

DU is a microcosm. Ever hear of a micro-trend? Look it up. We are not only a mirror for culture here on this board but we project culture right back out onto Google and every place else on the world wide web.

The average schmo...or even an intelligent schmo, Googles "elitist Obama" or "racist democrats" and they're going to get a big ole' buttfull of propaganda from this board.

Someone quotes some intelligent sounding figures and says "democrats don't need working class white votes" or "Obama's base is eggheads and blacks" and that schmo, who might be a nuclear physicist who's voting for the first time, is going to freak out and vote Republican.

These aren't closed forums, they are searchable. We should all remember what kind of message we are trying to send to the world about our board and our party.

I would call on the mods and admins to start really clamping down on this negative junk. I'm sure that they are hesitating for fear of people exiting the boards...who knows, I don't really know much about the person who runs this site.

Ultimately, we should be saving him/her the trouble of moderating this nonsense in-fighting for the good of the party and censoring ourselves.

I'm not berating anyone, I just really want a Democrat in office. My family needs this election. My wife doesn't have health care and my son is on state health care. She has diabetes and he has a colon issue. This is personal for me, not some kind of abstract rant from a new troll.