Reply #38: It's a time of divisiveness...

[kentuck]

Primarily because many have chosen their favorite candidate and wish to promote their favorite and to tear down the others. This does nothing but create tension on the board. It is totally unnecessary. We can be critical without being angry and mean-spirited but it has almost become contagious.

Then we have those "superiority" posts that for some reason or another (Civil War) believe themselves superior to other people in other regions of the country. There must be another way to criticize people without pissing off half the people on DU?

Perhaps it comes with the growth of the website? However, I don't see why the quality has to go down. I'm not so sure that it has? There are simply more critical posts because there are more people making posts. Some posts can disappear from GD in less than 5 minutes sometimes. We just need to be aware that words have colors. Some are red and lovely - some are green and poison.