Thinking about leaving the DU?

[JDPriestly]

61. Who? People who disagree with one's presidential choice are not

necessarily trolls and disrupters.

I think a lot of people are disenchanted with DU because people with opinions and ideas that differ from those of the disenchanted are presenting persuasive arguments.

The discomfort is due to having to admit that our first choice may have been wrong and that we need to rethink our loyalties.

Dealing with conflict is always unpleasant. But if we humans did not deal with conflict, humanity would make no progress.

Fortunately, on DU, the conflict is all verbal and hopefully polite. But new ideas set off internal conflicts that can be really hard to deal with, internal in each of us, within ourselves.

New ideas are threatening to us. They make us feel attacked and vulnerable even though the new ideas are not really hurting us at all.

We feel secure when we just repeat our old ideas, when we fortify ourselves by encircling ourselves with people who agree with us.

We have to be willing to open up to new ideas. That is what a lot of people on DU are finding difficult.

Many thought they knew what candidate was the best and are now realizing still at a subconscious level, that the candidate they had picked really does not stand up to scrutiny.

That is painful.

If people want a life of miserable comfort rather than a life of creative challenge and the comfort that creativity and adopting new ideas provide, then so be it.

But I am sticking around.

Feel the Bern.