Is it just me, or was the breaking of the NSA/Snowden story a big turning point... [View all]

...on DU where a crazy, CT-oriented, hair-on-fire, foaming-at-the-mouth brigade (an element that's always been here to some degree) took over?

I personally do think the NSA has overstepped its bounds, I'm not happy with Obama on other issues myself, like the idea of attacking Syria... but for baby Jesus' sake, I don't think that makes Obama either Bush or Hitler. I can easily allow for the possibility of honest non-conspiratorial differences in opinion leading to policies I don't like.

While DU has always been a somewhat frenzied place, there had still been plenty of calm, rational voices here as well. They seem mostly drowned out these days. A lot of blind anti-Obama rage on one side, only countered by occasional toadying Obama support on the other.

And today I see 9/11 CT being happily lapped up and praised. I can't even be bothered to argue against it anymore. It would be pissing into the wind in the current DU climate.

I used to think that DU was much, much better than simply a left-wing antithesis of Free Republic. Of late, I think it's only a little better than that.