Over the past few weeks, some subset of assholes have made things very uncomfortable around here if you don't agree with them. And I don't.
I wrote an entry that it took me a long time to construct, that was logical and insightful. It was well worded and calm.
And I got trashed for it.
I seem to see over and over again that if you want to say something like that you prefer not to vote for Kerry, you get trashed. It's not just me. There are lots of people getting troll and super troll ratings that don't deserve it.
I say I don't want to enshrine discrimination into the Constitution and I get bashed for it.
I say that there is danger on the horizon for the Democratic party and they need to stand for all people or risk the party getting smaller and smaller and watch the Republican party get stronger and stronger while more and more exDemocrats decide not to vote. And I get trashed for it. People purposefully misinterpret what I say as an advocation for people to vote for Bush. Well, just for the record, I never said that. Just for the record, no one should vote for Bush. Anyone who votes for Bush is voting for Hitler... pure and simple.
I get told to shut up that civil unions are the same as marriage. But they're not. I'm not allowed to marry the person I want, and that's supposed to be ok. My rabbi performed the ceremony, but that's not real and regardless my wanting to be a full participant in society somehow hurts the Democratic party.
Well, according to a lot of people here, everything I do seems to hurt the Democratic party. I never thought of that. I always thought I was a yellow dog Democrat. But, I don't like the way The Party treated Dean, so I'm the asshole.
Well, listen up. You can either engage in respectful conversation with people who may express different points of view, or you might as well just be the fascist pigs the Republicans are.
But, listen well. It wasn't that long ago that wedge issues were used to separate groups of people... and some of them wound up killed and the others wound up killers... and everyone's soul was forever tarred. That was Germany 1939, and it's not so different from today and you have to know that because not knowing it is dangerous.
Watch as we as a society are severed one from another...
Abortion(R) = Feminists(D) vs Catholics(D)
NAFTA(R) = Hispanics(D) vs Unions(D)
Gay Marriage = Gays(D) vs [Catholics(D)|Blue Collar Guys(D)]
Watch as the Republicans play Dem group (Blacks, Hispanics, Union, Feminist, Gay, Jew, educated) vs Dem group. Look for American vs American.
This war on terror will eventually be a war against all of us.
Stand together or fall separately.
Your need to have us all fall into lockstep has lost me, both to Kos and probably to the Democratic party.
It is a shame that some small segment of assholes has turned this environment from a safe place where thinking people can peacefully coexist and exchange ideas that would make the Democratic party stronger into a neofascist Kerrycamp.
Be careful what you vote for. You may get it.