2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Goodbye DU [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)in the last year slamming and mocking the left of the Democratic Party and mischaracterizing it as far left, radical left, etc.
Moreover, single payer, TPP and other things that this board would have condemned under a Republican a decade ago are considered far, radical left.
The desire to silence and censor people is over the top as well, and that is not liberal, either.
Until recently, I had two hide my entire time here. One was for failing to include the sarcasm emote (I kid you not) and the other I knew I would get. Saying fu to a poster seemed worth it, though. (Now I love him.) Then in a few days, I got three, one of which was for linking to an essay I had written on another board. Supposedly, I did that not because the essay was relevant to a discussion I was having (it was) but because I was trying to drive traffic to the other board. wtf? If I link to relevant article in Huffpo, is that because I am trying to drive posting traffic elsewhere? Obviously, I was wearing a sandwich board with a target on both sides. AFAIK, I still am. However, although my jury likelihood plummeted from 100% to 40%, I am getting almost as many jury calls now as I always have. That says a lot about the desire to censor.
It's no accident that most Sanders supporters have left this board, even though it is the most active "left" board on the net and it has the best and fastest software I've accessed in 12 years of posting. Even three years ago, some of my friends left voluntarily to post at Discussionist because there was less censorship of their left views there.
If you define progressive as a set of principles, goals or whatever, this board may not be for you.
However, if you define progressive as nearly unconditional loyalty to the Democratic Party and always praising Democratic politicians and their goals, this board was tailor made for you. Literally made for you.