Reply #38: probably none of those are universal on either side though [View All]

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People often start threads with "DU is doing this" whether it is bashing Crocodile Hunter or blaming black people for Prop 8 passage, when it is only being done by a dozen DUers or certainly less than 100 in a community of thousands (some of whom are probably undercover FReepers). Even when it came to pi$$ing on the grave of Ford or Falwell, we had DUers on both sides (by which I do not mean both sides of the grave)

This may be a difference between DU and FR. We are split. We have huge, on-going battles over almost every issue, from Snickers commercials to Tookie to Immigration to Israel/Palestine to gun control to smoking to Olive Garden to the bailout we have scores of DUers arguing passionately on both sides (or more), and there is not (AFAIK) a consistent split between group A (call them moderates) and group B (call them Greens) in each battle. Even if there was an official or unofficial DU majority opinion on every issue, clearly there are many people here who argue against that majority opinion.

Secondly, there is a matter of evidence. FR calls Obama a terrorist, and DU supposedly calls Bush a fascist. Those two are only equivalent if they are both equally untrue. I am reminded of the 2004 election. The local media would do "truth-checking" on the candidates and say "they are both wrong/lying" except they would make an equivalence between a trivial error by Kerry and Bush essentially purposefully saying "2 + 2 = 5". We, OTOH, have almost as much bashing of Democrats here as we have bashing of Republicans. With Democrats in charge of Congress and the White House, I think many DUers will be just as critical of Democrats as FReepers, albeit for different reasons.