It is too much to ask that we focus on voting out Nazis

[Cary]

I know. I'm just a dreamer.

We have to get mired down in ideology, ethnic, racial, sexism, or whatever issue we don't really disagree about because if we weren't fighting and abusing each other God only knows how we would suffer.

[ollie10]

1. One of the Russians' goals was to divide us

Get us riled up against each other. Race was the issue, we have learned, that the Russians most wanted to inject. The goal, of course, was for Democrats to get disgusted with each other and the system and not show up to vote...,.or maybe vote for someone like their friend Jill Stein.

It worked somewhat in 16.

And Trump benefited.

I hope we have learned a few lessons.

[Cary]

7. I once believed we could learn

I would love to believe that again.

[marble falls]

2. I'm sick of all the berniehillaryberniehillary purity testing, too. We're all Democrats and we're...

about to blow November 6.

[Cary]

6. Yep

And just for advocating peace I step in quicksand. It's gotten worse. I used to get attacked by one side. Now it seems I take hits from all sides.

[ooky]

14. +2

[BSdetect]

3. You might not be able to simply vote out nazis. They are not going to let you do that.

Every sign is shows they intend to fuck us over again.

I know we can't fight them in the streets but they know that too.

The US voting process is fraught with peril.

[Cary]

4. What's your point?

Give up? Fight with each other over things we don't really disagree about?

I don't think you want to say that. Do you?

If we vote we win.

[ck4829]

5. Resistance comes in a variety of ways

It's time to start using this in addition to voting...

https://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FDTD.pdf

[Exotica]

10. great find, thanks!

[el_bryanto]

8. I agree with you, but there's the second half of the thought process

which is "We need to focus on voting out nazis, and to do so those people who express opinions I don't like need to shut up so we can focus on voting on Nazis."

Bryant

[ollie10]

9. Sometimes it is best to keep your mouth shut if you are saying something stupid

Just sayin'.

As Twain put it:

"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt"

[Cary]

11. One can express an opinion without being obnoxious

[Cary]

12. So am I entitled to want us to vote out Nazis?

Do I have to buy into this "we can chew gum and walk" schtick?

If people who want to trash Democrats don't want to toe the line then why do I have to buy their schtick? It seems like a double standard to me.

[Gothmog]

13. Yes, we need to vote out the Nazis