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In reply to the discussion: Democrats with death wishes or trolls? [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)the very issues people are propounding as a basis for what looks very much like Obama-hate and which, though you may know that it isn't about hate, you don't necessarily know that all of those who claim synchronicity with you are so driven by higher motives, so some of us are asking ourselves if some of what calls itself "the Left" ought not, in the name of their own best motives, be examining EXACTLY who is throwing in with you in very concrete terms.
I've seen emo-impressed people around the emo prog movement HURT, used and kicked aside, on purpose. Pretending like that is not possible, especially on the internet, works against success on your own issues, which I suppose is your right if you insist, but it ALSO hurts a LOT of other people, who actually are committing themselves honestly and OPENLY to OTHERS in order to try to discover how to make things better for all of us.
That's NOT theory. That's fact. I know some people whose lives ARE about the very thing I describe and they are NOT emo progs.