Reply #27: I agree with your sentiments, but I think we'd get farther in real life politics than netroots.

[LoZoccolo]

On the Internet people can say all sorts of attention-whorish things like threatening to vote third party and pay very little social consequences for them, so it's a magnet for the kind of splinterist trolling that you are trying to fight. It's a place where people can whore for all the attention by saying something and take little or no responsibility for it. There have been people on here trolling for years this way - and when I say "trolling" I do not necessarily mean they are conservative, just that they are playing games and being manipulative - and show no sign of changing. In real life, you may be able to get several people who don't even vote or see how politics affects their lives to vote Democratic by the time the election rolls around, while the splinterists on DU are still at their games months from now.