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glad they found a place to be, without us.
May they go with Gawd. He speaks to them.
Nasty slurs being used towards women like cunt and whore? Check!
Inability to compromise? Check!
Willing to burn this nation to the ground by allowing Trump to destroy minorities and freedom and allowing him to have access to nukes? check!
Hatred towards Clinton, Obama, and most other Democrats? Check!
One more time...
We've seen these people in action. Defending this nonsense, ad nauseum, does not make it righteous or principled. These people don't resemble the "actual left" in any way, shape, or form.
The hate, and yes, bigotry have been on display for all to see. The only reason this continues to be an issue is because some of these people are STILL here, patting themselves on the back.
Defending this garbage is an insult to anyone who can read. But by all means, carry on...
SHARTS GONE WILD! - They once roamed the halls of DU, but at night, they were tooooooooo naughty! . .
. . so they were kicked out.
SHARTS GONE WILD! - Turned away from every respectable corner of the internet,
these SHARTs were all horny for hate, with nowhere to go . . . . .
SHARTS GONE WILD! - Come see what happens when these naughty naughty SHARTs make a home of their own at JPR!
See them getting dirty with right-wing sources and conspiracy theories! Watch as they bend into every imaginable position and just keep giving it! You will see, up close, HATEGASM after mind-blowing HATEGASM!
SHARTS GONE WILD! Available now for a very limited time
at the low, low price of a few minutes of your time and their long-lost dignity!
That's perfect!!!
I even made ME laugh!
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Because irony.
"must be recess at DU...."
"The mean kids are all out on the playground looking for someone to treat like shit."
It's a good thing you weren't discussing people here, because that would be....ironic.
"Eleanor Roosevelt-- a radical leftest I much admire-- said it most succinctly: "
"I now return you to your regularly scheduled playground belligerence. "
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Love it when someone makes a point about talking about others..... All while talking about others.
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and can only muster blank stares when confronted the evils of war:
Their priorities are way off.
is mainly just normal conservatives of various stripes, whatever those are today. That other forum's off-the-edgers no doubt include some conservatives, but generally speaking most of our party's 17-20% of conservatives are not irrational CT extremists.
Some of them are, of course, active members right here of DU. A few DUers self identify as conservative, others can be inferred as at least somewhat conservative by their statements on various issues.
Btw, interestingly, people generally form positions from various parts of the ideological spectrum. Our political orientations are overall averages of those positions. It'd be a rare person here who didn't have at least a few positions that would be considered conservative.
Even more, I think it was Pew where I read that it is normal for a person to have in their grab bag at least one opinion that would be considered outside the norm--on the far side from their overall orientation. My words, don't remember the article's exactly. Nothing jumped to mind for what far right position on what issue I might agree with, but maybe someday in chat with our rural South neighbors I'll finally find myself happily agreeing with them.
mixed ideologically, allegiances often strongly influenced by geographic factors that were very strong long ago. There's been a strong sifting out to liberal left and conservative right, but it's still not over and probably best that it never be. I do wonder if the sifting has left more moderate conservatives than the national average. After all, wouldn't you think the ones who leave with each election would tend to be the more strongly outraged? 
And that 17-20% of Democrats are conservative and, according to Pew a few weeks ago, 91% of Democrats support Clinton seems to show you're right that, this election at least, some conservatives are supporting the Democratic presidential candidate. And rejecting the other.
However, studies show that conservative Democrats normally vote very consistently for the Republican presidential candidate. They tend to vote Democrat downballot, yes, but that's because in the districts where most live the Democratic candidates are also conservatives running on conservative values.
Exit polls this year revealed that large numbers conservative Democrats who voted for one of the candidates in the primary specifically planned to vote against the Democratic nominee, no matter who that was, in the general election.
So, bottom line is that WE as a party include conservatives/right wingers and that for them being a Democrat does not mean they are part of the liberal majority. Of course, the various groups that make up the Democratic Party all tend to have what they consider their own core values.
great deal of good change. The New Deal and Great Society, for instance, would not have happened without the contribution of some probably typically moderate conservatives who decided we needed progressive solutions to some huge problems.
I agree "radical" is given a bad name it doesn't entirely deserve by extremist behaviors. We really need a good word for people who are not extremist but endorse radical change. I'm a strong liberal who would fit that description--when I thought it was achievable, but good luck finding a sensible radical group that keeps out the kind of people who insist I support atrocities and who have trouble cooperating enough to agree on what pizza to order.
I did locate and want to check out a closed forum that I thought might be promising, even if certainly farther left overall than I am, but they declined to have me. Can't imagine why.
to you.
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/so-apparently-were-the-so-called-radical-left/#post-152638
You are voting for Jill Stein and you call me an idiot?
and 
I haven't looked at that site in a while but there were some good DUers over there, this seems a little bitter and unnecessary. there were some nasty people saying nasty things at the pro-Hillary site too. I thought we were supposed to move on.
So I think the thread is legit.
which is why I'm glad they're doing their Hill-rage thing over there. That much I'll give them credit for.
before he endorsed her and that's why he did it. Completely around the bend.
Now there's a thread that implies Team Hillary beat up President Carter to get his endorsement. And one of them is dumbfounded about why the Democrats are working hard to keep tiny hands out of the White House. 
