August 06, 2010 06:17 AM UTC

Let Me Know When It's Over

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• by: Phoenix Rising

(Come back soon.  Me, I’m voting Democrat this fall. – promoted by ClubTwitty)

I’m outta here, at least for a few days.

I’ve been a regular member of this community for a long time now, and I’ve gone away due to real life scheduling for short stints.  This is the first time I’ve left because the discussion has deteriorated to what I consider to be intolerable levels.

The diary lists are clogged with “Bennet this”, “Romanoff that” tripe.  The front page is being overwhelmed with what I consider to be unworthy and unnecessarily aggressive diaries.  The commenters from both camps are flooding the comments on other diaries and generally being intolerant of each other, even seemingly of people who’ve known each other for years here on this blog.

I don’t need this.

I’ve waded through religious wars on alt.religion.scientology, put up with the USENet flame wars of old, fought the good fight on this and other political blogs, and through it all the conversation has never degraded so rapidly or completely as I’ve seen here in the past few weeks.

So, for now, good bye.  I hope this is all calmed down by next week and that both the winners and losers in this race will accept the election results gracefully and pledge to support our Democratic candidate, whoever that might be.

This has been, for 5 years, the finest multi-partisan blog I’ve found; it pains me to feel I’m being chased away from it by competing mobs of schoolyard insults.  Don’t let a good thing end from a political race gone all out of proportion.  See you, I hope, in a week.