It's time for this destructive meme about shutting up during elections to stop,

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127. Very revealing post. So now it's 'so far out there' to support Democratic principles and issues

and programs like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid? And this is why Democrats are so worried about what is happening to their Party. When we reach THIS point, where you are an 'extremist' for wanting your Democratic Reps to protect Democratic Programs, we know for sure that we have to speak out even louder.

And the use of talking points in your post is revealing also. It is especially galling to those of us who spent time on Right Wing forums arguing with them back in the Bush years to see their phrasing and talking points against Democrats being used here against Democrats now.

'Attention addicts'
'Ideological purity'
'Whining' etc. etc.

I never had a need to repeat these prepared attacks even against them. The difference between us Democrats and them is that we are capable of speaking for ourselves without prepared talking points. Seeing them around DU lately, raises a lot of questions. They are OLD for one thing, going back to Clinton years. And since I could never see anything coming from the Republican noise machine as worthy of imitating, I wonder why you do?

They make me cringe as they bring back memories of those days when I thought maybe it was possible to reason with Republicans and was met with a slew of these kinds of talking points every time.