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In reply to the discussion: This is what hurts my brain a little bit. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)suddenly making 85% of them permanent was a huge progressive victory for the people.
But you are not talking about the same people.
Many of the people who agreed vehemently on DU in the past are gone now. They are not the same ones now defending it.
Others who are now defending it were perhaps silent for fear of getting flamed by the majority, but now that they have a sizable contingent of supporters they feel braver to speak their minds.
For myself, I thought some of the shrieking during the Bush administration was overwrought. I got called a Bush-defender for saying so. I got mocked for scoffing at the notion of fascism under Bush.
Really there was a certain partisan vehemence back in the day where people were throwing everything at Bush, just because they hated HIM. Not because of principle or because they hated the policy, but because they hated HIM.
Republicans are now doing the same thing to Obama. It's kinda the Gate syndrome. Since August 8, 1974 every dedicated member of the opposition has been searching for the fountain of Gate. The scandal that will force the President they hate, that they never voted for, to resign in disgrace (at least temporary disgrace. It lasted, what, maybe 3 years for Nixon? Okay, maybe longer, he was not asked to speak at the 1980 convention or 1984 convention.)