Welcome and welcome. We're now at the portion of the primary where things have seemingly gotten ridiculous. Everyone's picked their candidate in the primary, stances have been taken, and feelings have been hurt. Hell, that's life on this site. Especially during a presidential primary. Hell, there's even a name of it: Silly Season.
It's Silly Season. This is tame compared to 2008. That was a real pie fight. It was legendary. Hell, I got put in timeout for a bit during that whole go-round (drunk posting...good times, not a good idea though). Actually, I may have got put in timeout twice (drunk posting is never a good idea). And I'm a pretty chilled out cat.
At this point people are going to support who they are going to support on this site. There isn't any side changing going on and not a lot of people are going to change their minds about their choices at this point, except for a few legit undecided cases that I've seen. Everyone's just talking past each other. Not unlike SB Nation's comments. At least we haven't devolved to YouTube comment-levels of verbal depravity.
In fact, it kind of reminds me of being in the back of the school bus in middle school, and we're all snapping back at each other and ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the best put downs and comebacks.
And I'm always amused at the "Can't we all just get along diaries" that pop up right at an ebb in the crazy of Silly Season weekly policy/personality/tactical/pie fights.Trying to herd cats is always an exercise in futility, and the cats end up making the wannabe cat-herder look hapless. That's how cats roll. Think we would have learned that by now.
In the end, though, around 99% of the participants on this site will line up behind whoever the nominee is, because there are more partisans on this site than idealists and radicals. And a vocal minority will pull up their stakes and move on elsewhere temporarily, or (in some cases) permanently. Til things calm down, anyway. That's just the way it is here.
Yeah, the race for the presidency is the main event. But there are undercards as well. Down ticket races, I think everyone here is informed enough on who they're supporting and putting their time and money behind, along with any ballot initiatives along the way. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Politics is a game of temporary alliances, and until there is a nominee...this fun exercise of attack-rebut-attack cycle with sprinkles of ad-hom and insults to one's honor will continue.
The calls for calm are commendable, but in the end are futile. Because something will happen next week and we'll be doing it all over again. So let the insults, HRs, timeouts, and bojos go on. That's life at Daily Kos during Silly Season.
Somewhere, Markos is loving the increased site traffic. To him, this is just a fun pennant race. We aren't even at the playoffs yet.