I hope you all are proud. I remember when this place used to be a place where happy, fired up activists had real conversations about progressive politics, where we all stood on important issues, and had real, substantive and in-depth conversations as a community.
Not anymore.
Now it's a place of food fights, irrational anger and frustration at even the slightest deviation from the most progressive, perfect position possible.
I'm not saying that being very liberal or progressive is bad. But what I am saying is that we do ourselves no favors by having expectations that are outside of the range of reality. We need to push the Overton window and castigate the President when he doesn't push hard enough, but we also need to remember that there is a broad range of ways to achieve our goals.
I think now, Daily Kos is not what it used to be. It is now nearly as ideological as Fox News. It is relatively insensitive to numbers and facts and highly sensitive to rhetoric and anger.
I'm not going to pretend I'm leaving - I've tried that before. But I want to point out how far we've come.
And I don't mean that in a nice way.