I have not been able to read one single diary today without the ardent supporters of one candidate, or another, interjecting their passionate comments about why all other candidates suck.
It doesn't matter the topic. The aim. The content of the dairy. They line up to start a war over why their candidate is The Annointed One, ready and willing to Save the World, and to deliniate why support of any other candidate is dunder-headed blindness.
They insult their net friends, question motives, make scathing comments that provide fodder for the right-wing, and preen over their superior understanding of all things political.
In have generally avoided the candidate diaries, having been through this back in '04, but now the bile is spreading. Encroaching into completely unrelated topics, hijacking threads, and completely losing sight of the intent of diarists who wish to discuss another, any other, topic.
This "My Candidate is the Deity's Answer to All" intrusion has gone beyond just a quirky little affectation by the least politically sophisticated among us. It has become a menace to the site. A destructive force that threatens the comity and unity of Kossacks as we try to parse and discuss a wide range of topics, important to the Progressive Cause.
Do the guilty really believe that their high-handed, rude, and thoughtless tactics will convince anyone of the superiority of their candidate?
My reaction is usually along the lines of, "What kind of candidate would attract this kind of wacko?"
Did you realize that the effect you might be having is counterproductive to all of your aims? That you might actully be moving people away from you favorite by your ill considered and hasty intrusion in each and every diary, no matter how divorced from your particular passion?
Please Stop. Please confine your comments, excitement, and general mayhem, to diaries that are written for that purpose. Leave the remainder of us to discuss and comment on other topics, of equal interest to us.