I'm gonna grave dance for this one...

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25. she was not very active

1800 posts in 8 years is like 4 posts a week. Or like 12 posts in one day, and then nothing for three weeks.

In the one thread I followed from a hidden post, she did not seem particularly nasty. Taking an unpopular position, but not especially nasty about it. There were, however, some self-deleted posts which may have been nasty, but aren't there permanently.

Obviously, the people who knew her and paid attention to her, knew her better than I did and EarlG found something he really didn't like, but this strikes me as an example.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6711772

Her post there wasn't at all nasty. Not that I am agreeing with her, but I can see people that I like who might. Like say, my mom, who freaked out about my little sister's bikini way back when. Or a former pastor whose daughter had to wear a shirt when swimming.

I myself think it is kinda silly, but is it really worth drawing a line in the sand and saying that ALL of my friends need to agree with me on THIS issue, or we cannot be friends? Really? That sounds more like my fundamentalist cousin than it does a progressive.

Yet I notice in that very thread a few other DUers jumping in to the debate only to add the opinion - "you don't belong here".

Is that part of our super-secret plan to win elections or to make the Democratic Party and/or the country more progressive? By keeping our group pure and making sure we all march in lock-step?