and yet this thread lives!

DU, though it's fora are intended for political discussion, contains very little political discussion. It mostly contains pleas for emotional satisfaction via hypothetical political actions to be taken by others, meme repetition and outright parroting, self-flattery and brute ignorance dressed up with the jargon of punditry. It's still worth wading through, for the gems are REAL gems, but it's disheartening to look at DU and see how much time spent in discussion with hysterics armed only with logical fallacies. (My unofficial survey reveals that DUers especially love strawmen, selection bias, confirmation bias, slippery slopes and of course the all-time champ, ad hominems.)

Thanks for this OP.