I'm not sure the country is going over the cliff, but DU sure as hell has.

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185. I agree that DU has gone over a cliff...

...and it's maddening. I hate to see everyone at each others throats. We're all Democrats, are we not?

Koch Brother Teabaggers grew from the fact that PO was elected in 2008, the country was left with GWBs big financial mess, the stupid electorate gave the Teabaggers the House in 2010, and now the "Republican Party" is supposedly entangled in a civil war (which is a good thing.)

And what are we doing??? Tearing each other limb form limb! Look it...I dream of another FDR almost every day. But for some ungodly reason, they must have broken the mold, because an old-fashioned FDR type is nowhere to be found. The year is now 2013, not the 1930s, and Barack Obama is our President. GWB's style for 8 long effing years was "my-way-or-the-highway." Do we think PO should do the same thing? I say, no. It was wrong when GWB did it and it would be wrong now if PO did it.

So, here we are and we must work with what we've got. PO is NOT a total failure because he's not a GWB or an FDR. Yes, I wish he would go further. Sometimes I feel like pulling my hair out. The world's going to hell in a hand-basket. We come to DU for some sanity and some kind of solace and meeting of the minds and what do we find? A great big war of words. Sometimes I think we even have some serious trolling going on.

I hope in the new year we can be a little more tolerant of each others differing views of what it means to be a Democrat.