Reply #55: seems to be a growing trend [View All]

[Two Americas]

The calls for purging or censoring people seem to be growing, and perhaps will succeed. I think the board is becoming more and more a rubber stamp for the party leadership, and that may be what people want.

For one group of people, electing Democrats was always a means to an end. For another, electing Democrats was the main goal. The first group is going to continue to speak about the same things, just as they always have. For the second group, they want that to change now that Democrats are in office, and they see the critics as traitors or trolls or disruptors. So long as Republicans were in power, the goals of the two groups were in alignment. Now they are not, and it can only get worse.

DU may need to change, and may not work he way it used to when Republicans were in power. I have no problem with DU becoming a booster club for the party, even though that would leave me on the outside.

If the folks on this thread, and similar threads tonight, want to be rid of the Leftists - or "Naderites" or "PUMAs" or whatever you want to call us - I think that is fine and I will support it. The two groups do not have much in common any more, and on almost every issue there are profound disagreements. Reconciliation and understanding become less and less likely with each thread like this. Neither group will back down, nor should they.


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