Hillary Clinton
In reply to the discussion: Can someone please explain the hostility at DU to me? [View all]wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Democrats winning. But this is a website mostly dedicated to political discussion and debate. I like to debate, and when I debate, I like to win
As you know, there are all different flavors of Democrat, liberal and progressive here, all ages, religions and ethnicities, from different geographical areas. We span a pretty large swath of beliefs. Discussion often gets heated. Sadly, we have gone from heated to ugly recently, IMO.
No one here is what I would term a "persuadable" voter. We have all pretty much decided where we stand on the primary. And if I was campaigning, there are far more efficient ways to do that in the real world. So if I am here right now, I either trash talk in GD: P or hang in this forum or in the AA forum (I am enjoying several GREAT discussion there right now, particularly the one about AA authors. Check it out if you like books!).
Once we have a nominee and the General Election cycle kicks off, people will either get with the program and support the Democrat or be gone. And the GOP politicians are even more horrendously despicable than usual, so beating them should get any REAL progressive/liberal/Democrat's engine revving when the time comes.