Enough with the scolding please. [View all]

[DanTex]

Seems whenever someone here on DU criticizes certain Trump enablers like Jill Stein, Susan Sarandon, etc., suddenly Green Party apologists show up en masse and start scolding people for being "divisive".

It's a little strange, because when people criticize other Trump backers, like say Ann Coulter or Alex Jones, nobody starts scolding "I'm sick of hearing about Alex Jones! Stop being divisive!" Which is good. There's no point in being wishy-washy about it, Ann Coulter and Alex Jones are not our friends, they are part of a destructive political force in this country.

As is the Green Party and the media voices supporting it.

So here's a little advice. If you have a soft spot for someone who is part of the Trump coalition, be it Jill Stein or Alex Jones or anyone else, feel free to simply sit out of the threads about that person. If you're bored of reading about either of those people (or of any other topic like say tax policy), then just don't read threads about them, there's plenty of other things to read here. No need to chime in to express your disapproval of other people who aren't as bored as you.

But the rest of us, being Democrats, and caring about the future of our nation and of the world, are not going to stop talking about Jill Stein or Alex Jones or anyone else who has actively worked to enable Trump. We're also not going to "forget" about the things they have said and done, any more than we are going to forget about "grab em by the pussy" or "Mexicans are rapists" and so on.

Remembering is important -- if more people clearly remembered what the Greens brought us in 2000, then maybe we wouldn't be in this mess right now. So to anyone who thinks they're going to scold us Democrats into complacency about what the Green Party is about, sorry, we're not playing that game.