UPDATED POST: Frankly, My Dears, I Don't Give a Damn
This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by LostOne4Ever (a host of the 2016 Postmortem forum).
NOTE: I originally posted this in GD, but was advised to re-post in GDP by one of the forum hosts.
I don’t give a damn who Hilary has been photographed with, whose wedding she attended, or what clubs she belonged to in college.
I don’t give a damn about HRC’s campaign logo, her pantsuits, or how long her bathroom breaks are during debates.
I don’t give a damn who Bill Clinton slept with, is rumoured to have slept with, or who the people he associates with have allegedly slept with.
I don’t give a damn what RW bloggers, pundits, or journalists have to say about the Democratic primaries, current Democratic office-holders, or the Party as a whole.
I don’t give a damn about FaceBook “likes”, on-line “polls”, Twitter tweets, or who anyone’s nephew’s cousin’s roommate says they’re voting for.
I don’t give a damn what astrological charts, tea-leaf readings, or the interpretation of goat entrails are predicting about the 2016 election results.
I don’t give a damn what “some people are saying”, what some anonymous “person close to the campaign” has purportedly revealed, or what any other unverifiable/untraceable sources have stated under the guise of “wishing to remain anonymous”.
I don’t give a damn how many yard signs or bumper-stickers declare support for one candidate over another, nor do I believe such things are representative of anything – other than how many people like yard signs and bumper-stickers.
I DO give a damn about my country, where it’s headed, and who is best suited for the job of POTUS. My personal choice for the position is Hillary Clinton. For others, their personal choice is Bernie Sanders or Martin O’Malley. Touting the experience, achievements, and visions of all three candidates serves a positive purpose. Demeaning, ridiculing, and misrepresenting any Democratic contender serves only one purpose: to pit party members one against the other, in hopes that the inevitable in-fighting will divide-and-conquer Democratic voters.
THAT is how elections are lost. THAT is how voters are encouraged to stay home, and not vote at all. But most importantly, THAT is the Republican wet-dream. And the fact that there are so many posters here – on what purports to be a Democratic-supporting website – blatantly encouraging discord among their alleged “fellow Democrats” speaks to just how far this site has strayed from its originally-stated purpose. It also speaks to who is now permitted to post here, and how far they are allowed to go in promoting RW talking points under cover of being “disappointed Dems”.
DU was once reflective of the Party – its hopes, its dreams, its goals. It was a place where constructive criticism of the Party was expressed, and a gathering place for those with ideas to encourage the Party to be more representative of the wishes of current-day Democrats to exchange their views.
Sadly, DU has become the go-to site for RW talking points, a sanctuary for those whose clear intent is to be divisive, and a place where the vilest comments aimed at individual posters is deemed acceptable by “jurors” who don’t give a flying fuck what gets said here – so long as it isn’t said by someone they personally dislike.
Sadder still is the fact that the Admins and owner of this site continually shrug their shoulders and act as though they have no control over what gets posted here – when we all know better. They have complete control – they just choose to pretend otherwise.
For those of you who will respond to this OP with the inevitable, “If you hate DU, why do you post here?”, I would ask the more pertinent question: “If YOU hate all Democrats and have nothing but complaints about the Party, why are YOU posting here?” The answer to the latter is obvious: It’s because you know DU is no longer a Democratic website, and your anti-Democratic views are more than welcome here.
As a long-time DU member who was once very vested in the success of this site, I find it incredibly sad to say that I – along with the many members who have gone elsewhere to engage in meaningful discussion among actual Democrats – no longer give a damn about DU’s dwindling traffic, and its inability to break-even financially as a result thereof.
You reap what you sow. If you're going to hold yourself out as a Democratic-supporting site and then allow anti-Democratic spew to be posted without restraint, you're going to lose your Democratic members.
That's not advanced website theory based on scientific data. That's just common sense.
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That one gives me heartbern.
Sorry, I thought maybe a rash of Oligarchyies might make it go away!
There, all better!
LOL
Your blatant overuse of the word oligarchy has shined the light upon you.
We now know, despite your comments to the contrary, that you really are an oligarchy... oligrachist... oligarch... whatever
I am certain you wear a top hat, a monocle and have at least 4 names... probably you're a third or a fourth as well
Most likely you...
with your top hat
Hope this plays as well as it does in bars when I say similarfor laughs
If not, my apologies.
Have a great day... 
(i like Halloween)
You have a great day.. mine isn't over yet out here in the middle of nowhere..
I agree 100%.
Too much of this:
Not enough of this:
and rec'd.
coming from the most divisive personality here at DU
My o my
It's a different media landscape, the middle east is not a smoking ruin, well parts of it are, Lehman Brothers didn't just tank and take half the economy with it, terrorism is a problem but frankly not an urgent one. Our biggest problem is currently the economy and that's a Clinton's specialty.
But I think you're overlooking an important fact, namely, that Hillary has also changed. She's a much better candidate than in '08. If part of the credit goes to Sanders, I'll gladly give him his due, though I think most probably goes to Barack and Bill. She's not the kinder gentler neocon she seemed to be in 2003 and she's not the senator of Wall Street she seemed to be in 2008. It's really remarkable if you let yourself see it.
p.s. very sorry to see Nance locked out of her own thread. 
