Stop hitting Alegre!
I posted this in the main on the daily Kos site just a minute ago. A commentor suggested since Alegre isn't posting at Kos I put it up here. Well,it is in invitation to respond.
Enough already. You made your point. She is a HRC shill, she is "paid" (although that is pure conjecture) she is a "fraud", as some have said (no names so you don't embarrass yourself). What "fraud" has been committed? throwing charges like that with no backup is smear. And it is of a long time Democratic party supporter. To whose benefit is it when you do that ? "She only has talking points, she never discusses...blah blah blah" You hate her style?
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Do you feel better, like a victor, a champion because you squashed or smacked down or used a smear in denigrating another poster on this site?
Look, there are Greenies, republicans, Trotskyites, environmental activists with no partisan leanings at all, Buddhists, Socialists, Libertarians and plenty of all sorts of Democrats posting to this site. There are no rules or standards here that people be villified because they oppose your candidate.
Should there be a vendetta, a feud that can be used to run them off or break their spirit so you can have a thrill?
I'll answer that obvious rhetorical question. No.
It isn't easy being principled. Most of the time, if not all, the principled diaries unless they belong to front pagers or very extensively followed writers (no more than a c hundred or so ) fall right off the page in hours. Regardless of quality, of originality, even of significance. There is a favored recognition list and reputation that goes with success for the authors, just as there is in more traditional venues for authors.
Now Alegre who I know only from her postings on HRC and "strike" leadership and diaries, we never having met or crossed paths, doesn't strike me as a purely limited mid level mediocre writer that is forgettable. She is what she is and she is a passionate determined supporter who keeps on coming to the point of exhaustion.
If that were my wife, or lawyer, or business associate I would be overjoyed and thrilled. I don't expect Jesus Christ or Albert Einstein to be my physical friend and associate ,that's like hitting the Mega Lottery, but here as members of the community are hundreds and thousands of those sorts of people in part and in whole. And we are the stronger for it.
In the coarsest and most imperfect way, we have 95 IQ's and 195 IQ's and they are equal before the truth. We don't judge members here by that metric or their spelling or even ability to navigate the Internet except where it limits their ability to communicate here. We generally don't judge except for rejecting and HR'ing fascist and hard core authoritarian talking points and messages.
Taken as a totality there is great strength and resources here. So why oh why would there be a vengeance and animus of the type and scale shown her? I want to know!
Is there a theft of resources,i.e. somebody lost thousands of dollars? a murder. what????
None of those reasons. It is pettiness and meanness and defects in the soul and character of the accusers. And I don't like it. There are injuries, but of the intellectual and psychological kind. What Alegre did and continues to do may annoy or frustrate but it isn't a crime! It is a rivalry that went out of bounds, that is all it is.
I can't believe there was one diary (and I am sure there are others) that was filled with hundreds of Alegre hate comments on the REC list. It was like the hundreds of Hillary hate diaries, only transferred to her person because the Democrats want to reel in the extremists and the ones keeping the feud going.
Well, suck it up and say, even privately if you don't dare say it in public you are sorry. Better yet stop the dirt and the dishing and the meanness which belongs to "QueenBees" and sixth grade private school snobbish bitches and bullies.
I don't want era of diarist wars and vendettas to continue one second longer. Enough.
Alegre, on behalf of the not so silent majority and those who like this site and what it does well and what sort of an America it promises, please accept this apology. No body was skinned or bloodied in making this statement. I hope you can suspend your "strike" and start the healing on your side of the divide.
Because God knows, if the situation were reversed and the name of the winning candidate were different, you would probably be close to doing this yourself as a logical next step. Please accept this and respond, it's not original with me. I have seen this plea in other comments recently.
The politics and facts/policy/issues have been rolled and tossed as if it were a cafeteria food fight. Ultimately it is the efforts and work of the candidates, not the jockeying between diarists and commentors that will determine our fate.
We have a huge task and a magnificent project and so many paths to success (that must be taken)to get there.
To all:don't close many of them down by eating our own and leaving a bloodied carcass on the path to dismay and discourage many others on this site.
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