STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Tuesday, 2 July 2013

[Demeter]

15. Ever since the Edward Snowden situation broke open

I have been expanding my Ignore list. I am ignoring all those people who can't see the forest for the fog in their minds. There are far too many of these people on a site that purports to be Democratic. One would have hoped that a Democratic site would also be "democratic" and that the intolerant and unforgiving would stick to being intolerant and unforgiving of actual crimes...not people who once were lost and now are found, not artificially and incorrectly designated "crimes against the state" which are actually good works opposing state-committed crimes, for the betterment of all. Or that they might have some innate sense of self-preservation, at least, of their own rights.

I feel that the 12-18 year olds have taken over DU, and we are having to sift through lots of junior-high name-calling and mud-slinging to get to the facts, the history, and the possible solutions of modern problems. I really miss the kind of site moderation that used to reduce such waste of bandwidth to a minimum.