There are a couple of people supporting Sanders and others supporting Clinton, who just can’t seem to stop behaving like 5th grade bullies. Repeating the same behavior ad infinitum.
Every time I open either a Clinton or Sanders posting, right up top, invariably in the FIRST FUCKING COMMENT, there is someone from the Other Camp spewing shit designed to raise blood pressure and inciting vitriolic responses. Most of the time? It’s the same small group of users. I could name three right now.
I’M SICK AND TIRED OF IT.
I want to discuss policy. Issues. US historical interventions in the Middle East and elsewhere and how it affects the current situation in France and Belgium; how it affects the future for Americans and the rest of the world.
But I can’t. Because every other minute I’m in a goddamned rage over that first comment in the last goddamned diary I opened to read about one or the other of them. I have a candidate, but you know what? I had a candidate in 2004 — and look what happened there, I had to get behind the guy I didn’t choose to start out with, and EVEN THEN we lost that fucker to the shithead of all Presidents.
In a political reality in which the statistics on Party affiliation and the 2016 Presidential election are:
Democratic Party: 30%
Republican Party: 28%
Independent: 39%
Whichever one of them wins the Primary, they will need ALL of the other camp’s supporters and a majority of the Independents to beat even that seriously fucked-up excuse for a Presidential candidate, Donald “Adolf” Trump in the General Election next November.
If you are serious, Markos, about the #DBAD rule?
GO read just 10 of the posts with the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tags on them and see what I mean — and give these assholes a timeout. The Flag instead of the HR has helped but it can’t make people behave like grownups instead of juvenile delinquents.
Daily Kos is becoming a laughing stock in the wider Social Media environment. I read comments on both Facebook and Twitter now, regularly, about the level of asshatishness going on here, and pronouncements in return for my links to posts here about how the person just won’t follow that back here because they don’t want to “play in the sewer”.
It’s your site, you can let this shit go on or you can do something about it.
What I do know is that every time you’ve been pushed hard enough to get involved and bring down the Ban Hammer when the shit-stirring gets bad enough… the environment changes for the better.
Food for thought.