Reply #19: Well lets unpack that a little

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Gibb's "professional left" was addressed to pundits and other professional opinion makers. People that make money writing their opinion pieces, TV, Print, High Profile Blogs.

Rahm's "fucking retarded" referred to the strategy of a specific group who were planning big television advertising buys with ads attacking Democrats who the White House were trying to convince to vote for HCR.

Both of them were stupid/assholish comments, but neither were addressed to average VOTERS, or the DEMOCRATIC BASE.

So I think this might be more of a Democratic Underground issue

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I think we probably agree that the base always votes, despite what we read on DU.

I think you and I can agree that if you don't vote, your vote does not count.

Stating something like that is stating the obvious. It doesn't blame some body for "lack of enthusiasm".

Doesn't have anything to do with "enthusiasm", it has to do with the physical act of voting.

But it would not surprise me to see threads that blame voters for lack of enthusiasm.

DU these days seems pretty much is driven by hyperbole, exaggeration. Everyone is so eager to make a point that they will state their case in the most extreme terms. That is sort of the nature of internet forums these days.