It has to be said. I am going to say it. Why do so many kossacks think they can pull off the internet version of Bush and Putin - staring into the pixels posted by other kossacks and seeing into their souls?
It happens all the time and it seems to be getting worse - instead of sticking to the merits, they draw conclusions about the motivations and predilections of others and argue with that instead.
So, fellow kossacks are racists, sexists, anti-semitic, anti-arab, they don't care about the suffering of this group or that, on and on and on. There appears to be no room for considering that people of good will can disagree without having some secret evil agenda. That even people of considerable intelligence can come to different conclusions about complex issues.
I'm not saying we can all get along all the time. Of course there are real trolls around here. If someone consistently makes statements that are manifestly false, by all means call them liars. If they make explicitly racist, sexist, anti-semitic, anti-arab remarks, hide-rate away! But if I were god of dailykos for one moment, I'd outlaw jumping to those conclusions on any but the most obvious evidence.