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Unity or uniformity?

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There are several diaries up decrying the state of the Democratic Party because people are vocal about their displeasure with this personality or that faction, or message failure or who to blame for the strings of lost elections, etc.

in this post-Occupy political landscape, the awareness that a widening gap between the few and the rest of us has been growing louder and popping up in unexpected (to some) places.

Dismiss Occupy all you like, bit it gave us “we are the 99%” as a brilliant way to articulate much of what’s wrong in this world. Combine that with the well known “follow the money”, and you can see where people like myself are having a hard time reconciling a party that looks like one thing and favors another.

Then bringing the lens closer, in trying to understand the dynamics of Daily Kos, I am trying to reconcile what I thought the site was about, with behaviors that I feel run counter.

The Ides of March was an obvious attempt to select and control the community, and this latest mysterious mass banning- over a week now without any explanation- begs a question of the gentrification of ‘more and better democrats’.

“No to the circular firing squad!” on the one hand, yet disappearing members without an explanation on the other. “Stop badmouthing democrats!” from one side of the mouth, with embarrassingly snide remarks and accusations from the other, made about bannished people who can’t even respond.

“Purity!” one day hurled as an insult to criticism of a beloved politician, and later that same day echoed as a condition if one wants to avoid running afoul of the gatekeepers and exile.

The ‘transparency for thee but not for me’ tactic is as divisive as any pie, until all the critical thinkers leave this site, and then what will you have left?


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