So I have been blocked from the Democrats group

[grasswire]

....and I have been a Democrat all my life.

My sin: I accidentally posted an OP there instead of here in the Bernie group. I can see locking my OP, but BLOCKING me from the Democrats? Crazy, crazy, crazy.


Here's my OP


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I have no respect for people who are afraid of ideas and words.

Zero respect.

This is especially true for those who call themselves Democrats.

I posted a brief note about Peggy Noonan's new piece in the Wall Street Journal regarding the Clinton Foundation corruption. I went into no details, and provided no link to it, out of courtesy for those who are afraid of conservatives. It was just a heads up that Noonan's piece might affect Hillary's current wooing of establishment Republicans.

The Hillaryans went nuts, as usual. One hysterical alerter hollered something about the piece being from Breitbart in the alert.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-clintons-get-away-with-it-1431035304

There's the link.

Pure censorship, here on DU.

My OP about Noonan here. http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511926776
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Guess I'd better keep my head down. Censorship at work.

[villager]

1. And I was blocked by the same Fox News Commentator for replying!

Blocked of a feather!

[grasswire]

2. damn

I hate censorship. It's so undemocratic.

[w4rma]

3. The New Democrats are doing their astro-turf thing. How do we defend against astro-turf? (nt)

[merrily]

4. Several ugly replies.

[arcane1]

5. You can get some small consolation by giving this thread a kick:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251658816

[grasswire]

8. already recced

Nice to see, though, that 315 others have done the same. !!!

[Art_from_Ark]

24. Proud to be one of the other 315

[840high]

28. 327 here

[libodem]

6. It happens

I have always considered myself a feminist but I've been blocked from some groups for not fitting in with the agenda of the gatekeepers. Iverglas ripped me up and spit me out!

[yourpaljoey]

7. Hit the dirtch!

I think that is funny... 'dirtch' instead of 'dirt.'
We said that as kids when we played Combat with fake guns.

[unapatriciated]

9. haven't you heard

we are no longer needed nor wanted. They are in the middle of creating a new and improved party that began to rise when raygun democrats infiltrated our party in the 80's.

[grasswire]

10. A hostile takeover of the Democratic Party.

Well, then, I guess they can't blame progressives/liberals from fighting back.

[unapatriciated]

12. That's how I see it.

I have been voting D and supporting my party since 1972. It has been a slow takeover with a little concession here and there over the years. Life was easy for many in the 90's so they thought a little compromise on issues that didn't affect them was no big deal. Then we got bush. Our party leaders are too afraid of the Republicans to stand up and fight for the issues our party has stood for since FDR. Now according to our party chair we are a big fugging tent and there is room for disaffected R's and their values.

[Doctor_J]

11. I think that group was created just so they would have some other group to kick liberals out of

All of the members of the 20th century version of the party (SS, Medicare, CRA, VRA, Medicaid, New Frontier...) were booted from the HRC group, but in practice the Democrats group is just a duplicate of that one.

[Old Codger]

13. The censorship

Has been going on for some time now, a lot of it is not that blatant but it is there, they pull their heads out of the sand just often enough to fuck up any sort of normal discourse..

[senz]

14. My comments have been taunted and baited more than usual today.

They are trying to get rid of us.

They must be feeling VERY insecure -- and we should take hope and strength from that.

[grasswire]

16. yes

I think they are trying to get us flagged for review.

[senz]

18. Yes. BERNISTAS: don't take the alert bait. Be polite or ignore.

Don't let them thin our ranks.

(I wish Bernie knew what we go through for him -- and for our fellow Americans!)

[Art_from_Ark]

25. Bernie's going through a lot himself

Having to deal with not only the shenanigans of DWS and her ilk, but also election fraud in several states. And of course, his very demanding schedule and decades-long fight for his, and our, ideals.

[RoccoR5955]

17. Of course. They know that they are going to lose

Whether or not Clinton gets the nomination. And Sanders supporters will be their scapegoats.

[senz]

19. I don't care if they scapegoat us.

It's worth it to save America from a horrible mistake that could hurt generations to come.

[RoccoR5955]

22. Not only America, but the planet,

and make the human species extinct!

[senz]

15. Oh, and don't give up, grasswire.

This is where we double down and go into guerilla warfare mode. You know, crawling belly-down through the grass, knife clenched between the teeth, sweat dripping down our faces -- that sort of thing.

Life online is riveting!

[mhatrw]

20. "real" Democrats are NOT allowed to question Hillary Clinton. nt

[silvershadow]

21. They were for democracy and free speech before they are now against it I guess. nt

[Art_from_Ark]

26. *Very* debatable

[arikara]

30. Anyone who's anybody gets blocked from that group

I trashed it ages ago, it makes DU marginally easier to take these days.

[TSIAS]

33. Grasswire is blocked

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=about&forum=1100

That group doesn't look like a very prosperous forum. Appears to be run by the Henchmen of the HRC group.

[LiberalElite]

34. Ok I didn't know this existed -Tks.

I'm self-deleting.

[bjo59]

27. I haven't been on here very long (started coming on regularly to find links to articles, rallies,

info, etc., having to do with Bernie) and was pretty taken aback at the sort of discourse coming from Hillary supporters plus all the blocking, alerting, etc. I changed my registration from Democrat to Independent after Bill Clinton's first term and only re-registered as Democrat to vote for Bernie. It's dispiriting to see how much the rampant corporatism in the US has seeped into the DNA of people who identify as Democrats these days and to realize that, for those people, "old school" Democrats are perceived as the enemy to a great degree.

[840high]

29. It's very sad to see.

[Bradical79]

32. Got myself finally blocked from the Hillary group

I checked it out and I saw them being trashy human beings, and let them know. A whole thread of Clinton supporters openly patting themselves on the back for being rotten trolls. Asked them to add me to their list, and William complied. I get tired of their bullying. Clinton will probably win this thing at the convention, and should be able to throttle Trump. But they are really going out of their way to discourage support for their own candidate.

They really are trying to take this party to the landfill. The party's most famous member who everyone had written in as the next POTUS losing so much ground to an independent socialist in the primaries should give them a hint that all is not well. Instead they are upset that there are too many people allowed to vote in our primaries. They're completely unhinged, at least on this site.