How can it be that posters here at DU are gleeful . . .

[Cary]

at the prospect of Republicans gaining seats in November?

What am I missing here? I don't understand this. I don't understand how it's even tolerated here. Why can't we throw these treacherous mopes under the bus, where they belong?

They're undermining our prospects and the DU administration is bending over backwards to say we're engaging in name calling when we refute them?

Unbelievable. Are they going to be gleeful in November when we lose seats and no longer have a majority? Do they think this is going to pave the way toward single payer health care? Do they think this is going to end the war?

I don't get it. I don't get it at all.

[Name removed]

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[nevergiveup]

2. It has become very disheartening here at DU.

The purists have taken over. I realized that there would be some criticism here of President Obama after he was elected but it at times has become almost vicious. Many of these posters wouldn't know pragmatism if it hit them in the face. They want everything and they want it now. Looking at the "big picture" is considered surrender. I really don't blame the moderators because I have no solution but do know that many good Democrats have left this site and it is sad. If there was ever a time we need to work together in the pursuit of progressive goals it is now but for the moment anyway, DU is not a "work together" place.

[goclark]

3. Sad to say you are so right nt

[Cary]

4. I posted a poll in the GD P and so far 25% are saying

it's okay for DUers to support Republicans.

Unbelievable.

[goclark]

6. And that is not against the rules? nt

[cliffordu]

5. Maybe the people who think that it's OK to support the R's

aren't really Dems.

Occam's razor and all....

[Dappleganger]

7. There's a number who've been posting lately

that struck me that way.

[cliffordu]

8. Yep.

[HopeOverFear]

9. it's a "told you so" kind of thing.

very childish. I actually some of them honestly want to go back to being in the minority. Some people are comfortable with bitching and complaining.

[Arkana]

10. New talking point from an ever-growing conspiracy theory movement:

Evan Bayh left the Senate to challenge Obama in 2012! :tinfoil:

[TicketyBoo]

11. Oh, I don't think so.

Rachel said tonight that he was the most conservative Dem in the Senate, so that's going some to beat out all of the other Blue Dogs for that title.

The crazies out on the boards should be very happy, since they've been raving about "primarying" conservative Democrats, anyway.

[Arkana]

19. Read GD--there's a thread devoted entirely to this theory.

I tried explaining that you don't challenge a sitting President for the nomination--and if you're a Democrat, you don't do it from the RIGHT.

But I was drowned out by a tide of "DLC MAAAAANNNNN" and "CORPOFASCIST DINOS".

[goclark]

22. Did you use the alert button?

[Arkana]

23. I've alerted thousands of posts.

It's never done me any fuckin good. In fact, it's resulted in me getting MY posts removed a few times.

Alert is impotent because the mods are so busy elsewhere trying to keep the site from degenerating into a militant far-left wingnut hole.

[goclark]

24. I've alerted about 10 times and only one time

did the message get deleted.

It was a mild post compared to the others that I've alerted on.

[TicketyBoo]

27. I haven't read anything "out there"

in two weeks or more.

Too crazy for me.

When Dad developed Alzheimer's, his thoughts were so off-the-wall and he was so concrete about being right, that sometimes it felt like I was the one who was losing my mind.

Reminds me of GD.

[Arkana]

26. New talking point: Obama wants to kill Social Security!

[quiet.american]

12. Obama's election has really shown me some are so far left, they're far right.

Two sides of the same coin -- fanaticism on the left, and fanaticism on the right -- often so blinded by ideology that actual facts and results are thrown overboard in favor of making up their own versions of events, and while the two groups claim to want two entirely different things, the results of their efforts amount to the same -- worst-case scenarios, or standing the way of getting anything accomplished.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

13. I like to call it "Pac Man Liberalism"

In other words, you go so far off the screen to the left that you reappear on the right.

[quiet.american]

16. Very apt! nt

[RoyGBiv]

20. Well, Pac Man fever ...

... is driving me crazy.

[Cary]

15. Like Hitler and Stalin. . .

no real difference.

[quiet.american]

17. These times have really brought that message home to me. nt

[Cary]

18. Extremism and ideology. . .

It's a bad combination. It's the height of arrogance to believe so fervently in an ideology that you become intolerant and belligerent.

Then they have the nerve to project that back onto me and claim that I'm intolerant and belligerent because I'm not tolerating their belligerence.

It's the same ploy used by both extremes. I think it's more stupidity than anything else. It's as Fire1 calls it here: "the stupid."

(If I've attributed that to the wrong poster, please correct me).

[HughMoran]

14. One said a Republican would be better than Bayh

I alerted stating that anybody who said that should be banned. At least the post was deleted within minutes...

[goclark]

21. I thought that was against the rules

:shrug:

I thought we were to support the Democratic party? :shrug:

[Arkana]

29. Not at the new DU, apparently.

Hating Rahm? A-OK!

Hating Axelrod? Aces!

Wishing Obama would throw himself into a wheat thresher? Awesome!

Insult Dennis Kucinich, Jane Hamsher, or any other grandstanding fool that wants to make headlines rather than report actual truth? YOU ARE UNCLEAN AND MUST BE PURGED!

[Cha]

30. Fuck the grandstanders.

[MerryBlooms]

25. Hate, jealousy and worry

those are the three wasted human emotions and are usually at the root of human ugliness ... my dad told me that over and over as I was growing up. I suspect those three human emotions also play a part in the answer to your question.

[Arkana]

28. Rasmussen Reports is GD's new best friend

because it broadcasts bad news for the President.