Reply #85: Fascinating Reading... [View All]

Especially all the responses here. You're SPOT ON in making this comparison and the responses you got just validate it.

Several common responses are "our extremes aren't as extreme as their extreme" or somehow this turns into a DLC bashfest...while I never saw the name DLC in your post.

You're holding up a mirror and those who see their reflections are trying to blame you for their own reflection. Quite telling in its own right. Some claim to be tolerant and "progressive", yet flame any attempt to engage in a constructive discussion and resort to projection and name calling when their arguments can't be won with ideas and actions.

Maybe its some are too comfy in the DU fishbowl...just like the corporate media is cozy in theirs and the Freepers are content in theirs. Many want the same lock-step, one note (and generally one issue) attitude and if you challenge, you're a "sell-out" or "DLC'er" or "just don't get it". Methinks they need to get out and meet the real voters, not the small fraction that post on internet sites.

DU has 100,000 members...and we're not certain how many are active or have several accounts...and considering there will be at least 50 million people voting Democratic a year from now, it adds to the distortion. As I've pointed out in the past, I've been a DU member since the early days and I have yet to meet another DU'er...or if I did it was in passing. If anything many of my local Democratic party friends have a less than flattering description of this place. It's all perspective.

Well ya got them squealing...means you hit a nerve. Yep, the truth hurts.

Cheers...

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