Mocking old folks who are worried about paying their bills?

[quakerboy]

92. This. Very much this

far wiser words than I had to express it.

Im on no team. I don't have any du group. I don't even do much posting here anymore. But damn my blood pressure goes up when I see the damage this is doing, just as words, without even being voted on, much less passed. Then I think of who I know personally who would suffer if this thing happened. Then I expand that across tens of thousands of groups of acquaintances just like mine, and I get sick.

And then I get onto DU and people here say "who cares, its not real anyway". Or just flat mocking people who want to do something, anything, to prevent this, who just want it undone. Who desperately wish the last week could be rewound and replayed some other way.

I am baffled. I can only think that the disruptors have won. There are a few people of in leftist lalaland. There are a few people who are conservative plants. there are a few very loud "centrists". There are a few True blue Obama supporters. There ain't Much of A DU anymore though. I have as yet to see a serious discussion of the issue anywhere on any page of DU that hasn't been derailed in a few posts or less by hateful crap, posted by people with 10k+ posts who ought to know better. And that's sad. Maybe its time for a divorce. DU, OU, LU, and IRARBINPRNU can each go our own way, we don't seem to have much in common anymore. Maybe we never did.