I don't like Jill Stein or support the Green "spoiler strategy" but let's be honest about it.

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165. My "diagnosis" of DU today. Not healed from Primary Wars 2016.

Many feel the site was trolled hard by people who said they were progressives but were posting stuff from some of the more egregious right-wing sources out there. Like it or not, people go to JPR, read the loudest voices there, see posts by thoughtful progressive voices shut-down by people screaming HILLBOT, and see their worst fears confirmed.

This to me explains a lot of the resistance to those who can't at this time recognize that not every Green Party member is equivalent to Jill Stein or VP Baraka. There is still I think a feeling of being under siege.

I think it is totally understandable if you look at it that way. Reasonable? well no, but as a big ole Pollyana optimist I beleive things will normalize as time passes and everybody won't be so damn touchy.

I'll keep asking people to chill out and remember how our Green Party allies are welcome here at DU. But I'm expecting it to fall on deaf ears for a little while yet.

Lastly I believe that the vast majority of DU'ers believe in progressive change, so I don't think it is correct to say that the majority of DU'ers are attacking progressives.

I can't articulate things well without doing 10,000 revisions, so no doubt this isn't totally clear or well written