A Word or Two About Grudges [View All]

[FatDave]

I keep seeing these threads popping up to the effect of "You expect us to unite with your candidate after all the nasty things that were said to me and about me?" and I'm getting tired of responding to them individually, so I figured an OP was in order.

First, I'd like to say that with one notable exception, I have no expectations and I make no demands. I look forward to a day when we can put aside our differences and go back to being Democrats, but if you're not ready to do that I'm not going to try to force you. The one exception is that I do expect anyone calling themselves a Democrat to vote for the Democratic Party's nominee in November, whoever that may be. There is no way that a sane person can hold a candidate responsible for the actions of a few of his or her supporters on an internet message board.

Secondly, I'd like to point out that Hillary supporters were in no way the sole recipient of baseless personal attacks on these boards. Some people were always decent, some were nasty when provoked, and others (a very loud but very small minority in my estimation) were constant assholes. This is how it was on both sides. Now maybe an almost certain Obama victory makes the past six months of abuse an easier pill for Obama supporters to swallow, but you can surely see that we took our fair share of it too.

And lastly, it needs to be said that for all of your complaining about your treatment, you chose to be here. Not only did you choose to come to DU, you chose to read the posts in GD:P. There were stickies all over the place about how to hide GD:P posts, and if you chose to enter the fray, then I have to assume you were getting something out of it. Chances are good that you dished it out as well as you took it. It's not like we came into your home and started screaming at you. You willingly and of your own accord came to a common ground where it was widely known that people regularly argued in the most vitriolic terms possible, so please forgive me if I have little sympathy for your bruised ego.

But anyway, if you don't want to support Obama, then don't. I'm not gonna change your mind. Just don't use your unfair treatment in GD:P as a reason not to, because I ain't buying it. We were all treated shittily. Now let's all get over it.