After a 14 month hiatus from Dailykos, I grew to miss the substantive debate that can only come from political nuts. Sure, I have friends who watch the news and read the speeches, but it's not the same. I got tired of having to explain the situation before being able to discuss it, and since I'm the one who had to actually tell them what was going on in the first place, I may as well have been debating myself.
So I came back, excited to once again engage in an active discussion of policy, tactics, the merits of legislation and what needed to be fixed.
Unfortunately, this is not what I found when I came back.
There are quite a few flaws that I see repeated by people on every side of every issue, and I'm hoping that by putting them here and making fun of them, I'll get on the rec list we can all get back to the intelligent, substantive debate that had to have happened here at some point, because otherwise what the fuck are we doing here?
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