(WARNING: This diary is a critical criticism of what happens on DailyKos from time to time. Parts of it are clearly lifted from another, unnamed diary, the changed words in bold, so that it can be seen how empty the original message really is)
It has become the popular thing, with random people.
Find a friendly online audience, then tell that audience what they want to hear. Convey to the audience fighting words and strong rhetoric, insult what you perceive as your enemy--a vague, ill-formed "ism" representing thousands of people--and offer nothing of counter-balance, just empty criticism.
Then suck up all the "feel-good" responses as the audience reacts to your celebrity and beats whatever drum you've hauled out, while praising you for making them feel good...about you doing, in reality, nothing.
Well, I've had enough of it. And from the small percentage of comment's I've read on this site, I'm not alone.
I like to hear from people who think like me, I really do. But I've become weary of the constant posturing without action, the endless hand-wringing, and the outright duplicity of it.
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