This blog has gotten increasingly nasty in the last 48 hours.
I am still relatively new here so am wondering if this was what dKos was like during the primaries. Were disgruntled Deaniacs "troll rating" people because they supported candidates other than "Ho Ho?" Were Kerry supporters antagonizing the Deaniacs, telling them to try eating a bigger bunch of "sour grapes?"
Get a grip folks.
We lost together, as a party. You lost, I lost, Kerry lost and "Ho Ho" lost. We lost despite managing to muster the most energy and the best organization the Left has had 70 years. We tried really hard and we got it handed to us.
Even if the stories of fraud are true, they managed to take it home for their guy effectively. We did not do that.
Tearing each other part will not change this. We need to put aside our differences and stick to building a stronger party. This is not helping. If you cannot stand the mention of James Carville on a Democratic blog right now, maybe taking a few days off is not a bad idea.
Members from diverse Right wing constituencies manage to set their deep differences aside and meet each week in Grover's office to agree on a message for the week. They almost always present a united front and its not only during elections. They do it when they are in power and when they lose. Unsurprisingly, whether it is by fraud or not, they are winning more elections than us these days.
We don't we like to overlook our differences. From the leadership to the grassroots, the party that stands for pluralism revels in hating itself; it is even worse after elections, especially ones we lose. We like to circle up, lock, load and fire away at each other. If we ever want to effectively beat them we have to stop tearing each other down first.
Do any of you have any ideas how we can do this, starting now?