2016 Postmortem

So many of the clear thinkers have been driven away that DU is left with is a jury system that is a reflection of the DLC-think that dominates here now.

And by pointing out this ever-growing bully factor, I have received yet another warning today. Clearly this is the result of juries who are looking for people to blame the election failure on. Look in the mirror, folks. I am not the problem. I tried to volunteer for the Clinton campaign. She never once set a toe inside my state (Indiana) and that surely contributed to our losing the governorship and the potential Senate pick-up. Clinton lost by 530,000 votes. Bayh lost the Senate bid by only 270,000. And Gregg lost the Governor bid by only 150,000. I am not the problem. The problem is that there were zero events for the top of the ticket -- not even any surrogates here. The Governor and Senate seats were easily within range if the top of the ticket had done ANYTHING. But I know this isn't what DUers want to hear. They want to hear that Ralph Nader or Jill Stein or Bernie or the boogie man or somebody caused this loss.

If there are any adults in charge here. they really should step in and stop this bullying while there is still a little bit of intellectual diversity left in this place. Otherwise this will become nothing more than the centerist version of the Limbaugh audience or the Fox channel.