Skinner: DU switches to general election mode on June 16, 2016

[MADem]

434. In that link, I had the back of a person who is on the opposite side of the

primary divide from me, but we were united in our horror at the direction of the conversation. That mess started out bad and went downhill.

Many people who are now popping up here have no interest in seeing a Democrat elected--they're here just to shit-stir, to divide, and to take their garbage back to that cave place where they giggle like schoolchildren telling poop jokes. It is very hard to have a political discussion here, when, if a person expresses an opinion about a public figure, the response is "YOU are (fill in some bullshit insult). That kind of stuff, and this kind of religious dogwhistling, is a problem. It shouldn't matter who is being insulted when it comes to that stuff. It can't be "OK" even if it is a politician we might not like under the gun. We've got to stick to our principles.

This place WILL get better as soon as primary season ends. And after the election, we'll be back to the same old carping and whining that we always engage in, but without the viciousness and the brutal personal insults. There will even be time for good humor.

I am counting the days.