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I'm not a super-long member of DU. I've visited DU almost daily for five years or so. When I was laid up during the elections ("Do Not Move That Yourself!" said a very stern husband.... I wish I had listened to him!) I spent day after day just typing away on DU like a junkie.
So, you know, I'm not an expert, but I have a pretty good idea of what modern DU has to offer.
So, this is what I've noticed:
At any given time, this morning for example, 1/4-1/3 of the front page of the GD section is actually an ANTI Democrat story. Seriously, look through it. Anti Weiner, snowden, angry at Obama, Angry at Clinton, Anger anger anger. And it has been going on for months and months now. One anti-Democratic blow up after another. IRS, NSA...all of these situations where a little bit of homework, a little bit of sleuthing, a little bit of investigating, fall apart. I know FOX news turns those (already known or total lie) leaks into front page news and their minions scream and holler and grab up their pitchforks and demand blood on a daily basis.
See, that's how the Right Wing works, scream and demand blood before anybody has a chance to think. And never, ever, stop the assault. The negative headline must always be the top headline.
And why suddenly is DU following this same pattern? Why is DU screaming for the blood of OUR elected Democrats every time FOX News has a new lie or twisted story to tell? What has changed in DU that has made 1/4 or 1/2 or on a real red-hot FOX news day, 2/3 of our headlines look pretty danged similar to what the Right Wing is screaming. And when the lies are showed to be lies, suddenly it is just off to the next anti-Democratic story.
I've seen some long time DUers (or, at least names I've seen around for a while) that I have never noticed very much before, suddenly having story after story that are nothing but anti Obama, anti hillary, anti dem....not calling for the end of the Democrats, but systematically chipping away at the dems that lead our party. Chipping away, trying to drive a wedge between us. Tarnishing the Democrats.
So it just seems I see more of this. Things like blanket anti-Dem statements that pass juries and members with 20,000 posts who suddenly sound an awful lot like a troll. Suddenly it is OK to call Hillary Clinton a witch and worse and that is accepted as being part of a group of supportive democrats discussing issues that effect our lives.
I just feel it has changed a bit in DU lately. We're always mad at our leaders, of course, because they are politicians working the middle and it pisses us off. That, of course, will never change. But lately I see more simple anti-Dem stuff and it makes me think I smell some deeply entrenched trolls who are trying to drive us apart or who want to at least change the atmosphere so it isn't so nice a place to be.
Anyone else been noticing this? Don't believe me? Then look through the first couple pages of OPs.... some of those headlines look like they could have been lifted from the conservative cave.
Of course, maybe it has always been this way. But, if you were a new member stumbling upon DU for the first time, it sure wouldn't be the oasis of free thought and Democratic power that it was when I stumbled upon it. I would not feel the brotherhood and love that brought me sanity during the elections.
I don't think I'd see unified Democrats that kept the Senate and put Obama into power and then returned him there.
And that worries me because that is the first page of the Right Wing plan and it echoes the playbook of Fox News.
Divide them. Make them Angry. Make them despair. And while they are distracted, steal the election.