After thinking this over for many weeks and. . . [View All]

[graywarrior]

. . .after nearly 9 years as a DU member, I have decided to permanently call it quits. I am bidding farewell to the people whom I have most in common; those who have been shunned and confined to express themselves at the Obama forum. Gone are the days of freedom to express opinion and support democrats without the fear of being attacked and schooled on Obama's policies.

GD and GDP have become a haven for idiots; an institution run by inmates who are hateful, mean and ignorant and have no real understanding about how US government works. I can no longer read any more drivel from people who spew false outrage with indignation and pretend that they really believed Obama was someone other than he claimed to be. DU sounds like FR or a teabaggers rally.

Neither can I tolerate the underhanded flame baiting threads--the polls designed to denigrate and bash a president who has been handed a giant bag of shit created and maintained by republicans and the people who cheer them on—people right here at DU. If Obama loses the next election, it will be because idiots on our side have divided us into factions. These are people who would rather drive home a point to prove that they are correct regardless of the bloody pulp they make of fellow posters. Saddest of all is that most of them know nothing about government or political process yet, they insist on offering advice and guidance to a president whom they voted for but now believe is evil and a liar.

I am a democrat, not a progressive. I joined Democratic Underground to support democrats—candidates and those who vote that way. For years I felt assured that this was the once play I could log on to and find those who thought and felt as I did. We became a tight group of misfits who worked at a common cause of poking fun at and defeating George Bush’s party in 2008. Now, I am personally forced to watch what I write just in case an Obama hater, or some stupid ass who takes the duck seriously, feels it necessary to insult me and insult the intelligence of the good people who want to just support their own ideas about who they like as their president.

I am very sad that it has come to this. I usually am capable of taking a lot of crap; I can laugh it off, ignore it, not take it seriously—it’s just a forum. But no more. I have had it. Gone is the common bond I felt with DU as a whole. I cherish the friends I have made here and will stay in touch with them. I bid DU farewell and good luck. If things change around here, find me on face book and let me know. Until then, I will leave behind an important part of my life because it has become too toxic; the poison allowed to seep into every vein of this place--like the oil poisoning the Gulf.

Qwaaking off for good now, kids.

Later,
graywarrior