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In reply to the discussion: Social Security belongs to the American people. It is not Obama's to bargain with. [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)should just sit DU out for a few days until all of the gnashing has passed.
Is this an important issue? Yes, and it has the potential to become even more so. But does that justify the 7000 DAILY threads, attacks on the president and some of the most disgusting attacks on DUers that try to talk about any of the 4 million issues that affect us as a country? Hell no. The response to this is so overheated as to be completely beyond absurd.
I've seen this place at its worse (which it seems to be on a bi-quarterly basis) and this has been particularly bad. I think it is the constant highjacking of threads that dare to talk about other issues that's just made me realize how completely divorced from reality many remaining posters on DU are. Thoroughly explains why so many have left.
Maybe if you used some of the above language against Ryan, Boehner, Cantor, Cruz, etc. you could accomplish something.
Love it. In other times, I'd ask you to post your experience as an 80-year old senior on SS as an OP so that others could read about your experiences. But I have no doubt that if you did that now, you'd be attacked by the pack of hounds that have pounced on this issue and are peeing all over GD staking their territory.