I have been a member of DK for over a decade. I used to write in spurts but always enjoyed the engaging dialog that once permeated the pages. Much better writers existed here long ago, some still remain.
But then an event happened for me that changed the face of the DK forever.
9-11 happened and Markos, owner of the DK blog, the servers, and holds absolute authority over what can and cannot be discussed made the decree that any discussion outside the OFFICIAL George W Bush/Cheney version of events was not allowed.
In just last last couple days due to illness I managed to find my way back to the Kos for the first time in years. only to find that once again the jackboot of Markos has stepped on the neck of his most liberal, most intuitive, most democratic members …. again!!!
Pardon me if I dont apologize for my expression that 9-11 was an inside job. That GWB & Co. assisted if not actually pulled off 9-11 and were complicit in the attacks on NY and DC.
But that is not why I am writing today.
Today I am either forced to support a HRC that Markos has declared as the sites surrogate candidate and cease to acknowledge that HRC is one of the worlds largest arms dealers, illegal actions in Libya should have charged her as war criminal, her (well known) support of the Iraq war and the taxpayer bailout of the TBTF Wall Street banks, or leave the site. This all when barely 25% of the primaries has registered.
In reality what has HRC done? Won a bunch of states that vote Republican in the general anyway. South Carolina hasnt voted for a democratic President since Jimmy Carter. But here we are declaring victory and Bernie supporters are to know their place.
Your list of censored topics is growing fast and perhaps there were others in my long absence. Dont be surprised that one day soon all your political clout will be gone as many of your members. And like RedState and other toxic blogs your echo chamber will be left with a few miscreants and despots.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
*f or clarification to those not getting the connection my reference to 9-11 was in reference to acceptance of the “official story” or be banned. Some of you may be too young to remember the last time censorship was en vogue