William Rivers Pitt: Coward-in-Chief: Trump Wilts in the Face of Fascist Terrorism

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355. This Winston Smith moment has been extended

into a ongoing flashmob largely because of me speaking up. I tried not to respond yesterday, hoping the voices would calm down, but it is obvious that if we do not denounce those who are marked out for DU scarlet letters, we risk having to wear them ourselves.

Well, I will wear one. I backed Bernie in the primaries. I liked him after the primaries. I still like him. I voted for Hillary in the general. I stopped defending any other view after the primaries. But even my vote has been questioned on this thread, and the purity of my convictions has been questioned, and my creds as a DUer of longstanding has been questioned based on not thinking it is right to turn on other progressive voices as has happened here.

I will never understand. And I will not be silent. I have always stood up for DUers, usually admitted when I was wrong, and tried not to simply pick on other DUers with constant recriminations about something they said years ago in the heat of passion.

I have been a voice of reason and have had kneejerk responses. Appealing to people to give the Pitt character assassination a rest clearly backfired. Appealing to our better natures was a mistake.

I believe this thread exemplifies what Skinner said "makes DU suck."