We're bought and paid for. We don't have the ability to have an independent opinion. As long as this crap continues to infiltrate this site, the war will not end.

like you.....LOL

They are wasting their money on DU. All the new support has gone to Bernie on DU. I doubt there are two people who changed their support to H because of DU. But probably hundreds changed to Bernie because of DU.

Ya know, they should spend more money on DU, help Skinner.

Today comes a thread asking if the Brock puppets will be happy tonight. It starts here. No excuses.

a reasonable discussion because of trolls. And, another Sanders supporter responds by going on a rant about David Brock. The lack of self awareness is stunning. In that we agree.

You got that right. The denial of the FBI investigation of H is proof. I had one tell me the FBI isn't. The lack of awareness is stunning and you are about to prove that, aren't you?

The "trolls" episode is their balm for these coming primary losses. That the vast, vast, vast majority of Clinton voters never even heard of David Brock is clear to anyone who isn't a complete fanatic. But it doesn't scan for the most depraved of the Sandersites.

They have a new lotion each time they're about to get shellacked:

Bullhorn, Brooklyn, Brock, whatever.

The inability to accept an actual election loss is a key feature of totalitarianism.

just that their increased presence makes constructive communication difficult.

That's not you. You're among the best of them!

don't know about that but, I tend to avoid even talking about Hillary. For me, Bernie's policies should be enough to win people over, or not.

But it doesn't seem to me like either side wants constructive dialogue. Everyone is throwing garbage at the other candidate, regardless of whether it's reasonable.

If one side is starting conspiracy theories from dawn until dusk, would it not be logical to assume the other side might wonder why they're being trolled and say "hey, cut it with the lies", which then engenders a reaction from the rumor mongers that they're being silenced?

If you are bored and have no one, it's an easy means of getting a kick or two.

Lately, I've begun actually DOING more stuff, and I do NOT miss my social media activities - or at least, the extent to which I was involved. It can actually be FUN to live, and rewarding.

Peace!

It's just strange to deal with them supposedly on our side. But that's what they're like. Fact free and don't want to discuss.
And it isn't from both sides either. I have found Bernie people very eager to dialogue. But they also get fed up with the mud slinging and that is very understandable. Putting out facts and pushing back against lies is NOT the same as the mud slinging crowd.

of our democracy... if they don't even see that ...

People here decided to act the way that they are acting.
It is not coerced or compelled.
It is purely voluntary.

Human beings are moral agents who make choices.

or THEM!

In the history of the American republic there was never a time when politics was nice, polite and genteel.
Aaron Burr shot and killed Alexander Hamilton over political insults in 1804.

In the election of 1800 the Jefferson campaign accused their opponent John Adams of having "a hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."
In return, the Adams' campaign called Vice President Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father."
And those dudes were Founders!