"The beatings will continue until

[Aerows]

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the morale improves."

That's how it seems on DU lately to me, and we can do better than this.

Hey, we have 4 great Democrats to vote for - no reason to get ugly at fellow Democrats that prefer someone other than your own candidate.

If you want to feel angry and disheartened, look at what the Republican party is running. We should be thankful that we aren't running a stable of freaking nutjobs.

[PowerToThePeople]

1. I will sign up for continued beatings

as my morale will not improve anytime soon.

Just because the Republican crazy train gets worse every year does not mean we should fill the void of non-uber-crazy right wing they leave behind.

[Aerows]

4. Yes

It's time to take a different perspective than "Conservative Democrat wins"

and turn it into an actually progressive and populist win.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. We just had a nice talk the owner of a furniture store....

Heavy West Texas drawl. Older guy in his 50s or 60s.

He said he voted for Obama the first time but didn't vote at all the second time because he felt let down that Obama wasn't as liberal as he thought.

[JDPriestly]

22. True.

[shenmue]

2. Way too reasonable

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Sadly, not when there are 4 Democrats currently running.

It was a nice attempt that ended up being more of the same when I got a response.

[shenmue]

8. ...

Thank you.

[Aerows]

16. Let me publicly apologize

for failing to include Chaffee. It was absolutely not intentional, I didn't know he announced.

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. I responded with there are 4 currently running.

You responded with something about the site being pretty or nice, but it didn't tell you much about policy.

I responded back with his policies page, which is rather easy to navigate to. Many of his policies are far more progressive than our progressives.
Yet, the count remains at 3 in the OP, while the edit window dwindles. That says more to me.

I like you Aerows, but I don't like this OP. There isn't much about DU I like though when it comes to the primaries; I never have. I just weather it.

My answer was simply to correct you. And that didn't happen. As I said before, no worries.

[Aerows]

18. I think we both agree

more than we disagree.

We are simply, boldly disagreeing with each other.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Thank you for changing it.

I've signed up to work for Chafee, and I feel really, really good about a candidate for the first time since Governor Dean. I support whoever the Dem nom ends up being, but this is where I'm starting off.

I appreciate the change.

[Aerows]

27. It was my oversight

thank you for the correction.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Four great Democrats...

http://www.chafee2016.com/

[Aerows]

5. I looked on Chafee's website

and while it looks nice, I didn't get a sense of his policies

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. You know how you said "we can do better than this?"

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Please do that.

I'm sorry, but this place disheartens and depresses me every single day. Even a post like this, which is supposed to unite, doesn't. "Three great Democrats."

http://www.chafee2016.com/policy/

On edit: Thank you!

[Aerows]

13. Candidly

I didn't know that he announced his run.

I didn't mean to offend you, and it wasn't some intentional slight.

[JDPriestly]

24. Thanks for the link to the website. I don't know much about him.q

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

9. I was wondering if that's where you'd go.

Because to me, it's seemed a lot lately that it would be 'The beatings will be continued until the horse has so thoroughly rotted away that nothing can be found to be beaten'.

Whether it's Duggars or the 'economic vs social (or racial) justice divide', there seem to be a certain few topics that people simply will not stop posting over and over and over, even if nothing is really changing and people's stances are set in stone.

[Aerows]

26. It's a discussion board

and many of us like to discuss the shit out of things.

LOL

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. 4 you missed Chafee's launch?

And his speech had much more than just the metric system. Though it is hardly surprising people are concentrating on that, instead of calling on neocons and the war on Iraq.

I will leave it at that, or I will cross the crew

[Aerows]

19. Apologies for failing to recognize Chaffe.

I'll edit my post.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Not a problem

[rock]

11. You seem to have some dissent

But not from me! The more the merrier, up to a point, as long as they're not clowns (see Republican candidates).

[seveneyes]

12. On my hands and knees

[we can do it]

14. Keep being sensible, please.

[seveneyes]

15. Until Morale Improves

[Flying Squirrel]

25. The bannings will continue if you support the wrong candidate

If you screw up and make one bad joke, even though that's your only hidden post out of an average 800+ posts per month. There will be no warning, there will be no time-out, there will be no suspension. If you're doing an effective job advocating against the Chosen Candidate of the administrators of DU, you'd better just watch yourself. Is there any other way for a rational person to see it? I just might pull a Walt Starr myself, I sm thoroughly disgusted.

[SoapBox]

28. Exactly my feelings.

I'm disgusted and disappointed.

[840high]

30. I feel the same way. Thanks.

[Thor_MN]

29. Proof that there is no "librul media".

Used to be that real journalists exposed the dipshits and crackpots who tried to run for office which kept them out of the circus.

What passes for journalism now won't touch a conservative candidate, thus the GOP clown bus. Flip side they attack liberal candidates, which keeps the field narrow.