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A HERETIC I AM

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21. I've been on the road all day and only just saw this thread a short while ago.....
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 09:23 PM
Feb 2020

But Progree is absolutely correct. This is not the group for promoting one political candidate over another.

As host of this group, had I seen your OP earlier in the day, I would have messaged you privately and asked you to kindly reword your OP. I would have considered locking it earlier in the day had you not done so, but by now I feel the conversation has evolved to offer some value to the readership over and above your expressed political sentiment.

As I said in this thread from December of 2018, when I requested and was granted Host responsibilities, I do not want to be heavy handed in any way whatsoever in moderating the content here. And for what it’s worth, I have written exactly ONE PM to a member in all of that time, asking them to reword their OP and I have not locked a single thread. That individual deleted the thread on their own.

For the most part, the folks that participate in this group keep their OP’s strictly to the point, and I think that is important so that this tiny little back corner of DU stays free of acrimony and controversy, offers honest, straightforward, ACCURATE information, as free from bias as possible and focuses on the subject matter at hand.

I’ll let this go because, as I said, it has evolved to offer some value, I feel. Having said that, I would ask that in the future OP’s are composed in such a way as to avoid specific endorsements of candidates as well any direct recommendations to purchase securities.

Are we talking outright stock? RandySF Feb 2020 #1
It includes stocks held in mutual funds progree Feb 2020 #4
Then it has to be more than half. RandySF Feb 2020 #5
Then what has to be more than half? progree Feb 2020 #6
I think the article is off. RandySF Feb 2020 #8
It could be. But why do you think so? It is a much quoted statistic progree Feb 2020 #9
Marketwatch?? They depend on more stock buyers! at140 Feb 2020 #16
There are many more than just Marketwatch quoting that statistic progree Feb 2020 #20
I wonder.... lastlib Feb 2020 #24
Well, 55% of Americans said they own stock in 2019 (was 63% in 2004) - Gallup progree Feb 2020 #15
Good point to make! A gross distribution of wealth in this country, which should have never... SWBTATTReg Feb 2020 #2
A very clever way to pitch one's primary candidate outside of the Democratic Primaries Forum progree Feb 2020 #3
My candidate preference is not important, the subject matter of thread is! at140 Feb 2020 #17
The admins instructions are clear - and there was a good reason for them. We don't progree Feb 2020 #18
To answer your tax question -- I got screwed a bit progree Feb 2020 #19
I've been on the road all day and only just saw this thread a short while ago..... A HERETIC I AM Feb 2020 #21
OK, I will edit my post...as the mention of Warren was incidental. at140 Feb 2020 #22
Fair enough. A HERETIC I AM Feb 2020 #23
Vanguard use to use Wellstone ruled Feb 2020 #7
I own stock jls4561 Feb 2020 #10
There are other places to invest Progressive dog Feb 2020 #11
True. Pension plans are included in the stock ownership statistics cited in the OP progree Feb 2020 #12
Defined benefit plans are not Progressive dog Feb 2020 #13
EDITED - you apparently are right, looking at the paper (NBER link). progree Feb 2020 #14
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