I am deeply moved and agree with this post by Granny Carol: www.dailykos.com/…
It comes as close as possible to expressing my concerns — without getting me banned for life from here. I had a rough week on the KOS and the real news isn’t helping much.
I am, no kidding here, a moderate swing voting middle class white guy. That corny stuff in my profile is 100% accurate. Party not declared. Been there, seen it, done that. I live and vote in a purple state.
I have volunteered in the field and supported many, many left side political campaigns. I think the GOP is evil in the dictionary sense of the word, but I remain moderate in most, not all, of my policy views. I have written some other junk on Kos if you wanna dive deeper in my honest views. I am pretty far left on a lot of stuff. I am a shitty writer.
I feel like I am being censored, harassed and abused by this web site for my free expression of opinion and my uncertainty about our common future.
Early this week I was feeling like I should quit the Daily KOS because my own experience here makes it feel like a Fox News on the Left mindset where only the party line is allowed to be spoken. Any dissent (or pointing out that we aren’t winning ) is banned. I decided leaving was ok, but only if an editor or owner tells me in person to go. It appears at this point that my departure is inevitable, no further invitation needed. The tent is full. Fine. No drama. I will think about it.
I came here to write, have fun and grouse about politics with kindred lefties of a less ardent character. None of those seems like an option for me after today.
This my first KOS diary from January 2013. Please read it before you denounce me as a right wing shill. I feel like the party situation has exactly reversed.
I looked at legitimate poll on top of this very page this morning and saw that it actually shows Trump with a higher national approval rating than the Democratic Party. That was disturbing to me on several levels and I tried to flesh out what it means to me.
The reality of electoral trends makes me frustrated and I think the Democratic party, both as a national organization and as a community of supporters, can and should be doing better. I feel that any change in the Democrats’ prospects has to start with facing those trends realistically.
That is what I have been saying this week and I am getting censored for it.
This disparity between what KOS enforcers are compelling us (or at least me) to say and pretend to believe and what is really happening out there is disturbing. I feel, right now, exactly like I felt early on the morning of Trump’s election when I told my exuberant Hillary supporting wife that I thought she might not win.
“Asking the internet” is an thin actual thing for me and KOS has so far really helped me explore my political perceptions and have fun with my shitty-writing hobby. I really don’t mind being disagreed with or having robust internet style back and forth. But I am getting censored, or perhaps blackballed is a better description, by a small mob that claims they are merely enforcing the policy and practice of the Daily KOS website. Again, if that is the KOS way I will take the highway, fine, no problems.
I guess that is how discord works. They got me. They got me right here.
I started the week as an angry left-of center moderate who thinks Trump might actually be the last U.S. President we have under the original constitution. I was kind of shouting down the well here to ask very broadly why the left keeps losing in the middle against the genuinely dire risks Trump’s GOP offers.
The answer I got back from the well is ”Fuck you for being a moderate” and “keep your little dog ‘TOTO’ from looking behind the curtain”.
That’s how I feel.
I need to take a break from these discussions so I will just “peace-out” for a bit.... I just thought somebody out there might be interested in understanding what I experienced this week.
Before this post also gets banned and censored that is ...