I just watched
Keith Olbermann's scathing Special Comment and I couldn't be more ecstatic.
However, I start thinking about how every time in the past few years when someone right HERE on DailyKos has tried to emit a 'crazed' (but reasonable) comment, they are shot down.
No, I don't really think it's some GOP Staffer sitting in a Senator's office trolling to bring down the Kos community. It's being done by otherwise well-intentioned people who probably agree with 90% of the issues you hold near and dear.
A great example is how right here on DailyKos many well-placed people, including (my army buddy and Fischerhof friend) MarKOS were quite adamant in insisting we keep talk of a stolen 2004 election to a minimum. Such talk was considered 'tinfoil hat' and so instead of putting the same effort into trying to really look at the facts as well as generate leads on new facts, we wasted precious time and words shooting down those who were quick on the draw. We were more worried about 'what other people will think' than actually looking at these issues in a real-time and honest manner.
Sometimes I think it's typical of people who are too busy or slow on the draw or otherwise not-well-informed to cast a new perspective as 'just another conspiracy theory.'
And hey, if someone REALLY wanted to shoot down a conspiracy theory, the best way to do that is to honestly examine the data set and invite open examination of the issue.
Olbermann is spot-on when he says "our tone should be crazed." Frankly, I don't understand why there are NOT a million-plus people surrounding the WHite House at this very moment demanding Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld to step down. But I guess that's because most of us don't have any skin in the game, or we do, but singularly, we are nothing other than just another silent and scared individual floating around wishing we would be led to a better day.
You want a better world? Start from the inside-out. Save your venomous comments for the real conspiracy theorists: the GOP. Save your 'tinfoil' snark for the people who really deserve it. Take your nastiness over to one of the reich-wing websites and give THEM what they deserve. But by god, if someone here is on to something, don't get in their way or act like a College Republican shithead and spray snark all over the place.
After all, isn't it starting to really look like there WAS some electioneering going on in 2004? The facts pile up every day. We don't see apologies or vows by those slow on the draw here. It's like FOX publishing a hit-piece and then days or even weeks later there might be some sort of correction during non-prime-time hours.
I know that most everyone here has their heart in the right place. I know that most everyone here, with the few obvious trolls, really want to keep this site a place for informed opinions, as well as researched facts (and not just become another Rense.com).
You want a better world? Then stop silencing those who are giving the appropriately 'crazed' response to the CRAZY actions and policies of the NeoCONs.