Most divisive topics on the DU

[Leith]

10. I was angriest about the fighting between

supporters of the Democratic candidates. I searched for hours for the video clip of a Bernie supporter throwing the chair. It was just a few hours after the accusation was made by Jon Ralston that it happened. Ralston did not witness the incident himself, but he took the word of one guy who was in the room and claimed that he saw it happen. There was never any proof. What some people called "throwing" was nothing more than lifting a chair a few inches and slamming it back down in the same place. There was shouting and angry words flying back and forth, but no tossed furniture that I could find.

Oh, yeah - I supported HRC, but I also supported Bernie. I would have been perfectly happy with either one as the official candidate.

Now we have a rift between Democrats over the Israel/Palestine fighting. According to some here (don't deny it) that anything less than 100% support for one side or the other makes you irredeemably racist, religionist, whatever-ist. I don't agree. My support is for any and all innocent victims - from concert goers to babies. They were all blasted to pieces by bombs. It doesn't matter who sent the bombs hurtling over to the other side. What matters is the victims who were maimed and murdered.

Below is a scene from Doctor Who. It doesn't matter which episode it came from or why the combatants had their hands hover over the launch buttons. All that matters is preventing the crime of war to continue indefinitely until the combatants get tired of killing and are ready to talk.

Let's set the coming decades of war and genocide aside. Let's jump to the final scene: talk.