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In reply to the discussion: ‘My Party Has Lost Its Soul’ [View all]cui bono
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I'm just so fed up with the attempts to stifle any criticism, which is the complete antithesis of what this country is supposed to be about. I don't think there's anything wrong with people posting positive things about Obama but I do think there's something very wrong with being unable to admit that he's done anything wrong at all. There's a very vocal group on here that not only refuses to acknowledge policy flaws but that attempts to shut down criticism either by disrupting threads with detraction or by character assassination or simple name calling. They refuse to ever talk about the issues and when asked straightforward questions they answer with smarmy retorts that have no content except for name calling (ODS, Paulbot, etc...) or other insults and then top it off with a rofl smiley. I guess I'm just so sick of it I let myself get dragged into the pettiness of it sometimes. I will add though, since you made that comment on if it were another group, the group that needs to grasp the meaning of the quotes is unlike any other group in that they ban for no real reason, without warning (even though it seems most people didn't even know they were posting in a group's thread, and they are in there hiding from reality rather than attempting to deal with reality, so your comment about if it were another group doesn't apply really as there is no other group that acts like that one.
Anyway, I'm going to go edit that post though, even though I didn't mean for it to be so pointed. It's so well known across DU that there are people who try very hard to stifle any and all criticism that it seemed matter of fact to me that there are a number of people on here that really do need to see them and remember what this country's experiment in democracy is all about.