This is so sad,

[Summer Hathaway]

33. Sorry, but ...

I am really tired of hearing how everyone is bought off, no one does anything to help the people, the 1% are all that matters, and so on and so on and so on.

Nothing personal towards you as an individual - but the rhetoric on this board is so over the top, it's bordering on insanity.

To hear DU tell the tale, no one has a decent job (and if they do, they're 'elites' or 1%ers), no one can afford a house or a car, or an education - and if someone does get an education, the education system sucks so bad, it's worthless.

There is no difference between Repubs and Democrats - all politicians are exactly the same. Ergo, there is no point in supporting anyone campaigning for office, or even voting.

Every decision Obama has made is the wrong one, or was made at the wrong time. Every appointment he has made is the wrong person for the job. Every statement he's made is on the wrong topic; when he talks about Y, he should have been talking about Z. When he talks about Z, it's because he's ignoring Y altogether. He talks too much, and not enough. And everyone on this massage board knows waaaaaaaaaaaaay more about everything - from national security to foreign policy - than Obama knows.

The paranoia is downright creepy, along with being laughable. Everyone is being 'monitored' in their every movement. Every email is read, every phone call is taped, every word spoken is recorded somewhere by someone from the gubmint (although no one has yet to explain exactly who is scrutinizing all of this massive amount of info on a daily basis).

The conspiracy theorists abound - every news item, no matter how trivial, is dissected in search of its hidden meaning. Every statement by a politician is parsed in order to extract some "what he/she is REALLY saying" type of hidden agenda.

Ignorance of the law is said to be no excuse. But on DU, that ignorance is astounding in its sweep. In the past week, we have been told by certain DUers that Bush and Cheney are self-admitted war criminals (must have missed that news item), and that Obama granted them pardons, along with immunity from prosecution.

A popular meme among many here is, "Obama could JUST DO THIS ...," which is usually followed by something illegal, unConstitutional, and/or physically impossible.

And then there are the RW trolls, who have found a comfortable home here - simply because Obama-bashing is now totally acceptable on DU, and the trolls recognize a welcome mat when they see one. And given the anti-Obama/anti-Dem BS that comes from alleged Democrats on this site, the trolls are accepted as brothers-in-arms, as being 'disappointed Dems' - who, of course, ALL canvassed door-to-door for Obama in the snow, sleet and rain, uphill there and back, donated to his campaign in sums they couldn't afford, only to realize they have been 'betrayed'. Spare me.

It has become perfectly acceptable - nay, even expected - on this "Democratic-supporting site" to call Obama a corporatist, a Republican, a Manchurian candidate, a liar, a thief, a lazy arrogant elitist who has not accomplished a single positive thing since his inauguration in 2009 - and the mere mention of his actual achievements are met with cries of, "Oh, noes, NOT the LIST again!"

In turn, Obama supporters are called Obamabots, idol worshipers, mindless cheerleaders - along with being told they are just too fuckin' stupid to "know" what's really going on. They are then told to "get thee to the BOG", that small corner of this Democratic website where those who support a Democratic president and his party are supposed to discuss amongst themselves, lest they disturb the bashers as they go about their business.

Democratic website, my ass.