Well despite the theories posited yesterday, I'm not a Russian or a RWNJ out to sow discord

[Ninsianna]

16. I think that's great advice.

Sadly, people seem to be choosing to nurse their grudges and being rather hypersensitive about any criticism of their favorite candidate. People disagreed with them, most have moved on, but some seem to have what seems at times to be a religious fervor about defending against heresy.

I've seen legitimate criticism, nothing that abuses the politician, but which criticizes words and actions being reacted to as if it was something entirely else.

In the past few months these people have been out there doing stuff and saying stuff, that's not about the primary.

It's in the news that there are investigations going on but any mention of what's kind of a big story about money and corruption and influence peddling is dismissed as an "attack" because of the primaries.

It's time to let those grudges go, and to realize that these are people, who do and say good things and bad, and who are not perfect. It's okay for us to talk about what's being said and done now and things that are happening in the present, it would also behoove us to talk about what happened in the past, if we can do so without flying off into a rage at anyone who dares to disagree with us.

That doesn't seem to be happening here, being on constant attack and projecting one's own primary onto people who clearly are not discussing the primaries, but what happened yesterday is not healthy. The paranoid rants about how anyone who's new "MUST BE A RUSSIAN TROLL !11!1111" when they disagree with some posters are silly.

Voting for other candidates in the GE is what got us here, and it's legitimate to be angry at people for doing that when the margins were so small and the reasons so obviously based on deliberate lies, pure propaganda and just simply not knowing things work in the US.


The sheer number of people who don't know (or pretend not to) that parties don't control elections in the US is astonishing, as an example.

Heightened emotions are understandable, pretending a comment about what happened yesterday or the week before is because of the primaries is not.