Reply #91: Come on People!

[plantwomyn]

I do not reply or post on an OP I do not check out. I actually watched as much of the speech that was available online.
If the repugs haven't taught us to educate ourselves before we vote yea or nay on something I don't know what will.

I read an OP based on this "McCarthyism" crap, and asked if anyone had actually seen the speech. Crickets.
I don't know if it's that I'm just on all of their ignore lists or if they're just refusing to answer any questions.
I've posted rebuttals of many statements and again, Crickets! None of my rebuttals have received a reply.

This is no longer a discussion board.
I say this because of the "let it sink" and "Ignore" campaigns.
Sen. Obama's supporters post an OP and the thread becomes a "yes we can" fest. Anyone who rebuts the OP gets ignored either by button or by LOL smileys.
There is no longer debate on this board. It has become more like a celebrity rag. Defamation, name calling, Photo Shopped pics and a total lack of respect for the opinion OR feelings of "others".
There are many posts that state that supporters of Sen. Obama can barely wait until they can start hitting the ALERT button instead of the IGNORE button. So the approximately 48% of Democrats on this board who do not or did not support Sen. Obama will not be welcome. And, as so many of us here believe, DU is a microcosm of the Party, that 48% will be ALERTED and IGNORED by the Democratic Nominee and the PARTY too.

I wonder what will happen to those of us who do not support Sen. Obama in the primary. It bothers me that the Democratic Party has followed the repugs lead campaign toward a 51% solution.

So when and IF Sen. Obama becomes the Democratic nominee for POTUS, this board becomes irrelivent to the Democratic Party.
IMHO we do not need cheerleaders. We need thoughtful cogent arguments in support of our candidate and from what I have seen on DU lately, that is no longer important.
We have become what we so abhor about the repugs, flag waving, rabidly blind followers of a candidate who WE do not feel should be held responsible to US for the answers to important questions.
Being a member of more than one minority, it disheartens me to see MY party turn it's back on me so thoroughly. I understand that DU isn't THE PARTY, but it WAS a place were divergent positions within the party WERE respected.
NO MORE!

I find these quotes poignant.
"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." --Thomas Jefferson
" know too well the texture of the human mind, and the slipperiness of human reason, to consider differences of opinion otherwise than differences of form or feature. Integrity of views more than their soundness, is the basis of esteem." --Thomas Jefferson
And my favorite...
"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice." – Johann von Schiller