Oh, damn. She went there!

[Kentonio]

209. It's a free country at the end of the day.

I would just ask though that people try and understand how toxic these kinds of threads are for many people. This place is a good hub for people who want to discuss election strategy, local organizing etc and finding support and help for their local party activities.

For a number of us now though, even coming here and reading a few threads feels like volunteering to be attacked. Almost daily (for more than a year now) there's threads about how horrible a man we deeply respect is supposed to be, and they quite often extend into 'and his supporters'. Meanwhile any counterpoint we make usually goes through a gauntlet of alerts and abuse.

Most of us just want to focus on the real war being fought against the Republican filth trying to wreck the country, and get as ready as possible for the midterms. We can't do that here if people feel like half the forum sees us as worse than the GOP. Being a progressive isn't supposed to be a bad thing.