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In reply to the discussion: Stop with the damn dirty politics against other Democrats [View all]Martin Eden
(12,885 posts)You should take your own advice and "just think about what you're putting out there" before you post.
You just posted a bunch of "negative shit" aimed at many DUers who have not engaged in anything like "implied racial innuendos" or "words that I won't even call my worst enemy." It is not "mudslinging" to speak the truth in a factual and reasonal manner about any candidate, even when it involves painful truths about a Democratic politician.
Have some posters on this board engaged in that kind of crap? Of course, and you will find that on any internet discussion board.
But they aren't your only targets.
You're aiming to shut down the kind of discussion that is absolutely essential to understanding the important choices before us in the coming election. Those who only look at the positive attributes of a candidate and turn a blind eye to the negative attributes (some of which are extremely consequential) have deliberately blinded themselves. Voters who refuse to keep an open mind and weigh all the qualities (both positive and negative) of politicians who seek the highest office in the land are part of the reason why the interests of average citizens are so poorly represented in our government.
I will be the first to say I don't have all the "REAL facts" about all the candidates in the Democratic primary. I want to know how each of them might be part of the solution and why any of them might be part of the problem.
If you already know everything there is to know, then bravo for you!
I will repeat:
It's not "mudslinging" to speak the truth about a candidate. If it's the truth, the mud is already there.
And it absolutely needs to be exposed to the light of day.
As you said, it's a free world. You can put on the blinders if you want to.
But when admonish others to put on the blinders, I will tell you where you can put them.