I've been commenting at Daily Kos since 2005.
This is my first diary.
I am called to diary in dissent against the descent.
Dissent is Democracy. It isn't vital to it. It isn't merely important. Dissent IS Democracy. Dissent is the entire fucking point. That's what's protected: Dissent.
But mob-mentality and all of its screeching, throbbing disgust? Not so much. I mean, hate filled glee is protected, but righteous dissent it ain't. Why isn't it righteous dissent? Because it doesn't accomplish a fucking thing.
That kind of "action" is merely a descent into irrelevance.
Right now, I'm furious with the President, and enormously disappointed in what I do, as a matter of fact, characterize as a lack of leadership on his part.
I am extremely disheartened by our party's present descent into complete incompetence and failure to fight the right. It horrifies me. The country is at stake, our mountains and oceans and animal sisters and brothers, our children and our elderly and our fathers and mothers who just want to feed and house their families are being simply betrayed by our party's unwillingness (for whatever reason) to Fight. It's fucking awful. I'm truly at a loss on how we are to proceed.
But the hatred, the hyperbole, the wholesale disrespect and almost masturbatory, orgasmic glee some commenters here seem to gain in trashing and gang-thrashing the President is fucking disgusting. With each passing day, this hysterical joy in hate borders more and more on being clear evidence that this site has given over to the rather careful work of some nasty actors.
In fact, at this point, I don't feel that this site is viable any longer for the practice of righteous dissent. I feel that our power as a community to organize dissent effectively has been thoroughly hijacked. And that is a tragedy, because sane dissent is, in fact, very much required right now.
Fight for some sanity here, people. That's all I'm asking.