Top 20 signs you might be a counterproductive left wingnut

[MADem]

468. DU used to be more of a Village. People used to help one another out.

Now it's just a Cage Match.

I don't know if he asked--ask him. And NY isn't Alaska or Montana--it's a densely populated state. Why do you think he's the only one in his area? If I lived near him, I'd drive a few miles to help, if it would make a difference. Why make fun of that, or put it down?

Did you ever offer an "attaboy" to anyone running for public office here? I make it a point to offer verbal support to any DUer I encounter who is running for office.

I also do a lot of "local shit" in my own area for people who run for office. I round up elderly folks and drive them to elections--and that includes these very local contests that don't make the local TV news, never mind the national wires. I am aggressively loyal in this duty--it consumes a fair chunk of my time, and I enjoy doing it.

I don't take those comments as a "slam." I take them as a truth; this website has gone far afield from its early days when people were kinder to one another, were interested in supporting Democrats, and less quick with the "gotcha."

Every politician without a pedigree, without deep pockets, and without a famous name started out running for "dog catcher of cabbage patch." See, that's how politicians come up --- they start locally.

The fact that you denigrate the guy's effort with snarky "dog catcher" comments doesn't say anything good about you at all. It puts you in the Keyboard Commado Crowd, the Internet Tough Guy Brigade. It makes you sound both mean and petty.

It's easy to tear down, harder to build up. Pointing this fact out shouldn't freak people out so much. We are Democrats, here--most of us, anyway, or at least, we USED to be--and we shouldn't be made to feel that supporting the work of Democrats who represent us is some kind of crime, or is "uncool" because cheering for someone like Ron or Rand Paul is "cooler." And that IS the sense I get here some days. I welcome election season here, when the more obvious Demo-denigrators are forced to shut up for a change. A lot of the posts I see here outside election season would get a cheer over at FR--and that's probably because some of them are written by denizens of that joint.