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In reply to the discussion: civil war on DU [View all]Denzil_DC
(7,242 posts)and something to be guarded against, but it's insidious because it can spread paranoia - one "side" thinks people are paid shills for the administration (of which I've seen no clear evidence), the other sees libertarian etc. infiltration (of which I have seen clear evidence). And I think some just troll each other with the accusations because that's how they roll.
I think there are plenty of people here who have honest disagreements about issues without all that, and no doubt any malicious intruders will focus on those to capitalize on them. There's no way to guarantee that will never happen short of setting up a very closed forum that I doubt many of us would be interested in belonging to, though some are blatantly using the ignore feature so freely that they're creating such a forum for themselves because they can't brook dissent from their world view.
In the end it's not the disagreement that makes DU suck, it's the way it's expressed and the dogmatism that labels people as beyond the pale if they don't pass some invented purity test.