That’s right, I hate you all. You, and you, and you over there with the face! You get right up my fucking nose! The thing is that I don’t hate you all the time, because let’s face it your all, to some lesser or greater degree my allies in the fight for Liberal change in the United States.
Does that mean that the RKBRA’s gang don’t bug me with their over love of being armed? No as a gun control guy I find them offensive from time to time.
Does that mean that it does not bother me when people I think of a smart and informed seem to see the president in completely uncritical terms, no matter what? Nope, it bugs crap out of me especially on the issue of rule of law and torture where the President has consistently been less than any president should be.
Does that mean I don’t find the other folks I consider smart and informed who can seemingly find no good in the our Democratic President to be overly hyperbolic and abrasive? Oh you bet your sweet bippy there are days that I do.
Does that mean that I don’t find it incredibly annoying when believers come to a clearly atheist thread and start complaining that they are persecuted? Or the other way around for that matter? Oh, like you read about!
And for all the other single issue folks who post here, do you think that hearing the issue you think is most critical over and over again does not get tiresome? Well, there are surely days when I roll my eyes at it.
But here is the thing. I am sure that there are people in every single group I just named and ones that I have left out (for brevity and not because you don’t get up my nose) that feel, or have felt exactly the same damned thing about me.
There are none of us who have not gone overboard with our comments or vendettas on here at the Great Orange Satan. Not a one. I think I have popped off to just about everyone I interact with at one time or another. Were they all dissevered? No, not even close.
I can not believe what has been going on around here between two groups of people I have a lot of respect for lately. Call ‘em the Obama-Bots and Obama-haters, or call them the Hatfield’s and the McCoy’s it does not matter at this point. I can’t believe that I have to say what I am going to say to adults, but you all need to knock it the fuck off.
I’ve read it all. I’ve seen the insane (on all sides) accusations of persecution and the paranoid claims from both sides that the moderators’ are out to let the other side grind them into dust. Enough is fucking Enough! This is so dumb I can’t stand it any more.
Look I know there are folks here who think that there are racists among us. There may be but short of people making actual racist statements there is no way to know. I know there have been people who uprated some pretty nasty racist shit from a user who got banned. I also know that prior to that these same folks felt that he was one of their “group” and that the whole group was being attacked.
People make mistakes, all of us have and all of us will. If there is no room for people to learn from them then there is no air here.
I know that folks in the BlakKos community feel like they are under attack for their push back on this and, some, for their unwavering support of the President. It is a valid emotion to feel that way, but can any of you actually say that you are getting anymore than you give? Really?
To all of this I have a solution. Stay the fuck away from each other. It is a big site and no group, no posse nor cavalcade is going to “win” Kos. There is room for ardent supporters of the President and those concerned with the African American perspective. There is room for people who think we need a radical change in the top of the Democratic ticket and who believe. There is room for those who believe that there is nothing more important than the 2nd Amendment.
So all of you need to act like adults. Stop going to posts where you know that a point of view which will enrage you will be presented. Stop posting reply diary after reply diary to each other! Stop going to threads and attacking the posters or their allies for whatever it is that is pissing you off about them. Here is a little secret, It-Will-Not-Change-A-Damned-Thing. Not one, so why waste your time?
In reality all of us here have a hell of a lot more in common with regards to what we want for the nation, than we do in disagreement. It all comes down to methods and priorities and surely everyone reading this can agree that everyone has their own take on methods and priorities. What is important is to be able to work together when we do agree and leave off picking at each others scabs the rest of the time.
I don’t have to love you and agree with you all the time for you to be my ally. In fact I like the fact that people who I think are smart and informed disagree with me. It means that I have to make my arguments better if I want to persuade them. Or I might be persuaded myself.
The folks (and you all know who you are) who need to act like adults. I have not seen any new arguments or more persuasive arguments from either side in weeks. I have seen a lot of provocation from both and all sides and a lot of escalating hysteria. Please, if you want to be affective activists, and for the sanity of the folks on the sideline, stay away from each other. Whatever the slights are let it go. If you see a comment or a diary from one of your supposed opponents, ignore it. For Gods Sakes you’re all supposed to be adults and elite bloggers, how about acting like it?
For the folks not involved, how about the same thing for those who get up your nose. I am not talking about trolls, they are obvious, but when you see a diary by a Kossack who you know, really know your could not agree that the sky is blue with, just let it be.
Surely there is enough shit to talk about Republicans and Tea-hadists without wasting tones of time and effort fighting each other? Isn’t there? Aren’t there enough problems that we can work together to solve and put off our differences until all that work is done?
From time to time we are all going to piss someone or another here off. There is no need to let that momentary anger degrade our ability to work together. I have hated you all from time to time and I am sure I will hate some or all of you again if we’re all here that long. It does not mean I have to keep hating you, or that I want to have a fight about every little thing. I get pissed, I get over it and I try to move on. If this Irishman with anger issues can do it, so can you.
You’ll either take this advice or you won’t. I can’t make anyone do anything, I am just a blog at this space. But I gotta tell you it kills me to think of Karl Rove and the Koch brothers laughing until they wet their slacks at the people who could be real trouble fighting each other instead of them.
The floor is yours.