Reply #52: yea, you're right

[sweetheart]

I get caught up reading tea leaves on DU, and i see freepers
pushing threads that are clearly negative and intended to be divisive. I see old DU'ers having free speech chat as usual,
and i see a new generation of DU'ers pumped to win this election.

Part of me wishes that DU would be perfectly amicable to win over
voters and inspire discouraged democrats who feel beaten up by
liars and smear-propagandists. Another part would not sacrifice
free speech for nothing and no one.

Expressing the following topics is hot for these reasons:

1. religion bashing
2. discussing tax and reforming tax
3. doubting the democratic ability to win in november
4. bashing "our" troops
...

surely there are more... you can't start any of those topics without
having your intent called in to question by other DU'ers, as some
of "us" see the ontological choice of creating the discussion thread
in the first place as potentially working against the campaign
need towards keeping democratic underground bouncy and a positive
support "sacred space" for winning in november...

and then the first amendment voice says: "aaahh humbug, write
whatever you want... its free speech".