This is why we lose

[Kentonio]

56. Ok, let me talk to you like a real person instead of an internet tag.

Our party is not perfect, and we've been routinely getting our asses kicked as a result for a long time now. Maybe his solutions are the ones to improve our situation and maybe they are not. There's definitely a good debate to be had between the different wings of the party.

The key word there incidentally is debate.

If you don't think his policy suggestions are right, then discuss it and I'll happily talk it through. Hell, if you make a strong enough case I might even change my mind. I'm not locked into any particular ideology, I try to go with the evidence and the most rational ideas (as I see them) available.

All that is happening around DU lately though is people making it (or taking it as) a personal issue. As if Bernie Sanders came round to their house and told them their children are ugly. So they shout and rage and then those of us who support his ideas get pissed off, and we all devolve into the kind of bickering we should leave to toddlers and conservatives.

What do we gain by any of this? Am I going to read one of these threads and think 'oh wow, he's actually a terrible person'? Are you going to read some of the replies and suddenly think 'Oh wow, I was so wrong, he's actually brilliant'?

So why don't we just stop it, and debate ideas instead of people? God knows we have enough real targets out there without shooting at each other all the time.