‘My Party Has Lost Its Soul’

[cui bono]

86. I edited my initial comment since it was causing divisiveness.

That's really not what I want. However, I will not shy away from criticizing what I perceive as an attempt to stifle policy discussion and critique.

I still completely disagree with your reply to me. You are not getting what the issue is at all and you've misinterpreted what I'm saying about how the BOG is a bubble. It's not about whether someone recs a thread in there or not, it's about the SOP and how there is absolutely no allowance for anyone to say anything someone in there doesn't like or they get banned without warning. It doesn't really even have to necessarily be a criticism. Surely you can agree with that. And that attitude doesn't remain in the BOG. It's all over DU with the attempts to derail threads and slander anyone who criticizes Obama. There absolutely is, if not blind support of him, an incredible amount of apologists on DU when you see people defending cuts to SS, or denying that he ever put SS on the table, defending his NSA policy, defending the TPP or at least telling us we shouldn't criticize it. I mean come on, if you don't see that then you are absolutely in the bubble.

And I also never said someone gets blocked when they never posted in the group, I said people have been blocked without knowing they posted in the group. One sees a thread on the greatest page and responds and don't necessarily know or notice that it is in a particular group. It happened to me and I've read many posts of others it has happened to. That's why you should issue warnings. Hell you should issue warnings simply out of consideration for other DUers.