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84. Unfortunately,

the site has chosen Party identification over liberal democratic principles. I don't see that happening.

It used to be that constantly posting in favor of right-wing policy was grounds for PPR/tombstoning here. Now you can advertise or act as apologist for predatory right-wing policy all day long, and as long as you claim to be a Democrat, you are just fine.

This is why, IMO, we still get the Hate Mailbag, but we no longer get Top Ten Conservative Idiots as features here. Top Ten Conservative Idiots was content-heavy and focused on the destructive policies of the Right Wing. You can't print something like that anymore, because virtually every predatory policy it used to lampoon and lambaste is now being carried forward and expanded by corporate Democrats. The cognitive dissonance alone would kill it as a feature.

Hate Mailbag is fine, because it's the visceral, largely content-free Two Minutes Hate. The vast majority of the cheerleading now is either fluffy, vapid bids for loyalty based on emotion, bids for visceral hate directed at Republicans, or arguing that a Republican would be worse. That, and trying to bully away those who speak the truth about what our party is actually *doing.*

This could be a vibrant site again if it went back to deciding membership based on support for liberal democratic principles again, rather than ceding principle to corporate party designation. People are desperate for places to talk openly and honestly about how to get this country off the suicide track the corporate oligarchs have put us on. Unfortunately, money talks, and you will not find many places online anymore that are not patrolled by corporate/political interests and turned into just another arm of our corporate media.

People leave out of disgust and helplessness. The entire country is feeling pretty helpless about now...