Bernie Sanders
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I've been on DU a long time. It helped get me through 8 years of Bush. I was here for the Obama/Clinton Shenanigans of 2008. Don't like Hillary, would never vote for her even though as white middle-aged, middle-class female I'm her target demographic. What I am seeing is basically a re-run of what happened here during the primaries then, except on steroids and so much worse. I got very excited about Obama (he wasn't my first choice) but gravitated to him initially because he wasn't Hillary. I volunteered, I donated money, blah de blah the whole nine yards. But that was only in the first election, the second time around I went and saw him speak, bought some swag and voted but a lot of the initial giddiness and hope had dissipated. I still like Obama, I think he is an inherently decent man, but the system is corrupt and it corrupts those in it.
Except Bernie, he seems immune to the corruption all around him. He has never wavered from his values. They don't all match mine. I don't think any one person can share all of my values. But as someone running for president, he comes the closest I have ever come to in my voting life time or thought I would within the corrupt system we have devolved to now. To have the chance to vote for someone like him is exhilarating. Which amazes me to see people on a supposedly progressive, liberal board trash him so badly. Just the absolute fucking glee the Hillary supporter have about this "scandal" today, turns my stomach. So, I did something today I thought that I would never do. I started my very own ignore list. I've only just begun and have a feeling it will grow but already DU is a nicer place. Just thought I would share here with my fellow Bernista's. I stand with Bernie, I trust Bernie and I'm Feelin' the Bern.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Just trashing the GD: P and HRC threads does wonders.
werknotgoin2takeit
(172 posts)I have seen your name around these parts forever and I love the political cartoons you post . To have you answer my post and first too is like meeting a celebrity. Thank you!
n2doc
(47,953 posts)I haven't even dated a Khardasian! Anyway, belated welcome to the Sanders team (and DU).
daleanime
(17,796 posts)but believe me, I do understand.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)my ignore list just in the last couple of months and trashed GD-Pee- it really improved my quality of life. No regrets.
MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)I've been on DU for years and only had one or two people on ignore, and never for more than a couple weeks. That has all changed since this primary season began.
I now have many on ignore. It honestly pains me to do that, but it's the only way to be able to tolerate this place at the present time. Do what you have to do, but don't be silenced. Continue to post and speak out.
Bernie is the best, most honest candidate of my lifetime. I am proud to support a person of such integrity and look forward to voting for him in the primary and general election.
BTW - good to see you here. Don't be a stranger.
werknotgoin2takeit
(172 posts)It is like personal censorship but the idiotic arguments and the unearned vitriol is just too much. I am here everyday, I enjoy reading so many posts and I learn so much here that I will not give this place up. I just needed to do a little house cleaning.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)It's a tough call. You know the posts they make are still there. But it's like being kinder to yourself. Good for you.
werknotgoin2takeit
(172 posts)It's like closing the door on a messy room. I know the garbage and dirt is still there but I don't have to see it. But your are so right, it was a tough call, one poster in particular pushed me over the edge and I just decided if I was going to do it, why not go all the way.
Hepburn
(21,054 posts)What is sad, I have found it necessary to use Ignore on posters I have known for years and you I used to respect a great deal. The constant vitriol finally got me started with one or two and then, like you, I then went all the way. Hide thread and Ignore have made it possible to again enjoy the DU.
ms liberty
(8,581 posts)And a jury blacklist, too.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)The players change every so often, so you have to update it from time to time.
werknotgoin2takeit
(172 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)You can access it by clicking on the "My Account" tab at the top right of the page. It's the 4th tab from the left once you're on the My Account page.
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Plus, Bernie has the voting record to show the exact intent of his entire political career.
I see you probably don't post much, but I wish you would here... at least in this group. I like and relate to how it feels here at times. I added another few to the list myself, and I've always had a "small" group I ignore...
But NOTHING like the group that has grown over the last 4 or so months. Unbelievable.
Take care,
MMM
werknotgoin2takeit
(172 posts)I don't post much, I'm more of a lurker, but I enjoy when I do. It's wonderful to interact with so many smart and funny people. I feel like James Dean in DU just now in Rebel Without a Cause, "Your tearing me apart!" I've never seen the like. The Republicans are eating their own and the Democrats are finally trying to reclaim their party and being eviscerated for it. We do live in interesting times.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)but right now, I've got so many cowpies on my waiting-to-ignore compost pile it's not even remotely funny.
07-08 was a nasty time, really racist, hateful and nasty things were said and talking points issued. But this year, Camp Weathervane and some of the She-Who-Sticks-Fingers-In-The-Wind supporters have made DU suck ass.
Ignore list and Hide thread is like spraying a can of Febreeze.
werknotgoin2takeit
(172 posts)Your description had me laughing. Cowpies is just about right! The air is so much fresher now.
Hepburn
(21,054 posts)Have never had to use the Ignore feature. Now? I must have close to 100 Hillary supporters on Ignore. I cannot believe what I see posted anymore.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Ino
(3,366 posts)...and every day I find more for the list! It keeps me sane.
harris8
(179 posts)Over 1100 on my ignore list, but unfortunately I still see (on the DU home page) OP's by people on my ignore list.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)but I cleaned it out after the primaries ended. I haven't used it since. Sometimes posts I read here are extremely difficult to stomach, but I refuse to ignore them.
werknotgoin2takeit
(172 posts)Like, I said I've never had one before it's just become too much especially after DNCGate. Now Manny gone...I'm now thinking that ignore isn't even enough to cut the stench. Might be time to take a powder. Don't know...been a horrible place the last 24 hours. This is the only nice group anymore but then it feels like hiding if I only come here .
City Lights
(25,171 posts)And now I do more lurking than usual. I'm not one who posts a ton anyway, but I find myself biting my tongue more frequently now than before.
onecaliberal
(32,866 posts)PFunk1
(185 posts)At first it was quite small, no more that 20 folks tops-I have a strong stomach afterall. Then the Obama elections years came in and that strong stomach reached it's limits so I stared expanded that list to ignore of the PUMA and jerks that came along with 'em. Once Obama got elected it got more action to deal with the Obama bots. Now after a long pause I'm finding I'm using it again to ignore the rabid Hillary folks. Especially those who think you're evil cause you don't support her or wont accept/vote for the democratic version of the ticking bomb theory (i.e. it'll be doomsday for the supreme court it you don't support the democratic candidate-even if it's someone you detest). And that list is still growing (and I might start the jury ignore as well). Which is a part of the reason why I have a dismal outlook on the 2016 elections.