I'd like to give a round of applause to all the Jill Stein voters and JPR-atf*ckers out there

[Jim Lane]

285. Correct. That goes the other way, too.

There's a lot of stuff on JPR that should be taken directly here.

Each board has posts of the form: "What those people on the other board say is totally wrong, but that other board is a cesspool and I would never sully my keyboard by going there."

The left would benefit if progressives were more willing to engage with other progressives who disagree with them on some points. Instead, what we have is the frequent assertion that the people who disagree about anything aren't progressives at all.

The most obvious example is the role of the Democratic Party. I personally am a registered Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary and for Hillary Clinton in the general election. I believe that the correct course for progressives in electoral politics is to work within the Democratic Party, and that the minor-party route is a big mistake. Nevertheless, I understand that people can disagree with me on that without being right-wingers or bots or Russian trolls or off their meds or whatever the insult du jour is.