TOOK THIS DOWN FOR A WHILE TO PROMOTE UNITY BUT OUR "SISTER SITE" THINKS UNITY IS A HIGH SCHOOL

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN HOW SUNDAY'S POSTS RELATED TO EACH OTHER--AND TO ALL OF US

On Sunday, I purposely moved the "de-linked" thread up next to the "up or down together" thread. In so doing the point I was trying to make had nothing to do with whether my site has lots of links to it. The placement of those threads was to make the point that democrat/progressives had nothing to fear from free speech and differing thoughts and that two democrat sites, even if disagreeing on a primary, could support each other by linking. Fear of speech is one of the most anti-democratic things we can project. Failure to work together is a good way to ruin a party. Ask the American Whig party. It blew up in the 1850's because they wouldn't hang together.

So, Nicky, my pal, it is not "beneath" me to argue that U/G made a grievous error when they linked me and then struck the link simply because they didn't like some of my thoughts. It is a fundamental part of who I am as a democrat Promoting the Marketplace of Ideas is not beneath anybody. It's a principle of governance. This is way beyond personalities.

If we really fear hearing other thoughts, maybe we're truly not about any great democrat principles. If it's just about worshipping at the right barstool, then we're going to have problems. If it's only about saying things that don't make our old line friends uncomfortable, what good is that?

BTW, you don't hear me barking about QP not linking us. It's what I expect from the narrow bandwidth party, but not from my democrat brothers and sisters.