Meta meta meta. Blah blah blah.
You're a douche. That person's a DINO. That other person's a troll.
My opinion's right. Your opinion sucks bigger than the HCR bill. Which is awesome. Or totally horrible.
And when are we going to get to the REAL issue of immigration reform/DADT/gay marriage/ending the wars/Tea Party Militias etc etc etc?
I have never, ever seen a group of self-proclaimed progressives act as intolerant, ignorant, and downright offensive as the folks at any RedState teabagger convention.
Is this really what the progressive community has become? I mean, my GOD. We make fun of the right wing because they're tripping over themselves with idiocy and non-reality-based hysterics, and here we are doing the same thing.
WE HAVE TO BE BETTER THAN THIS.
If we're not, we don't deserve to govern this country any more than they do. Our entire platform could propel itself through the next several election cycles simply by being better than they are. At passing effective legislation. At standing up for our principles. At not letting the wingnut rhetoric of secession/civil war/white supremacy get nearly as much air time as it's getting.
The comments in the diaries lately make me want to puke. "So don't read them." I'm starting not to, but it sure is a shame if everyone has to stop reading the diaries because the comments are being drowned in toxicity.
Just please, before you contribute to a flame war, or start a flame war, ask yourself if it's something a teabagger might do. Then go do something else. Something positive, maybe.