DU's General Election Season postponed until Monday June 20

[MADem]

164. "The glee of some to purge?" Really?

I don't think anyone wants to lose any actual members of this community--but if some DUers are going to be miserable here, they can either be miserable by and to themselves--and not inflict their crabby sorrow on the rest of us-- or they can part ways with us and go where they'll be celebrated. We didn't tolerate that PUMA shit eight years ago, and we're not putting up with it this time, either. This election is too damned important.

It's not like there aren't other websites that will welcome mean-spiritedness and hatred--there are plenty of places where the members get a charge out of shitting on Hillary Clinton during this election campaign--the problem is, the people who frequent those places are often intolerant, racist, sexist, obtuse and ignorant morons. You just can't get intelligent discussion at those places. So, people who just NEED to fling invective at Hillary will have to suffer the opinions of nitwits and, frankly, debase themselves, if they want to crap on Clinton on the internet--because we're just not going to tolerate it here.

And good thing.

But more to the point, I, for one, am a bit piqued at attempts to tamp down any MENTION that the nomination of Hillary Clinton is a BIG F-CKING DEAL, to quote Joe Biden. This is a massive event in American electoral politics. It is an event worthy of CELEBRATION. HRC did it twice as good, "backwards and in high heels" to get half the credit--and the surliness and churlishness of a small number here who refuse to acknowledge that yes, this IS a big deal, and YES, this IS a massive game-changing moment in American politics--just as the nomination of Barack Obama was--is troubling to me. It makes me wonder how "liberal" some of our membership actually is (though more often than not, this kind of denigration comes from low post count members who often do not last long here--another "good thing&quot .

There's much about the Presidency that is both aspirational and symbolic--and the enthusiasm of some to crush and negate that aspect of Clinton's candidacy makes me go "Hmmmmm."