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In reply to the discussion: This shameless, duplicitous Third Way propaganda program is absolutely painful to watch continue. [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I saw your post that said this:
'It's actually become rather amusing - watching certain posters starting every OP or reply with, "As a true progressive, I'd just like to say ...",
So I did a DU search on the phrase 'as a true progressive, I'd just like to say' and the only result was your post claiming that others use that phrase constantly. Which is apparently not true at all. No wonder you went with 'certain posters'. Vague accusations work best when made against a construct rather than an actual foe. But making up things to whine about is just making up things to whine about. Never an appealing quality.
I also note that when asked your own specific points of view, how they differ with the ones you see as worthy of thousands of words of characterization, you just refuse to do so.
So I guess you are upset with the people you label as 'self proclaimed progressives' although you will not say who they are, although you will not say what policy differences you have with them, and you basically define them as 'those Summer calls self proclaimed progressives'. Only you know what and who you are talking about, because you started off with coy 'certain posters' layered on the hyperbolic characterizations of these 'certain posters' and fail to offer any specifics of any kind at all. People ask you a question and you act offended, then return to your characterization of unnamed DUers who have your ire and whom you label as 'self proclaimers'.
Those are tactics I dislike intently, so whatever the hell point you are trying to make, the way you are making it is not to my liking.