2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'd love it if the JPR returnees... [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts)... back on DU has nothing to do with "differing opinions".
It has to do with the fact that once they left here to post exclusively on JPR, this site became way more civil - and people noticed the difference.
You'll note that I said "certain JPR posters" - they would be the ones who expressed their "opinions" on JPR which included some of the nastiest things ever written about HRC, Obama, and the Dem Party, "opinions" which included outright lies about them, "opinions" that were straight-up RW talking points (they often helpfully provided links to RW sources to show where their "opinions" originated), "opinions" based on Alex Jones-style conspiracy theories, "opinions" that targeted people like John Lewis and Liz Warren as being sell-outs because they didn't endorse Bernie, and "opinions" that expressed hatred for anyone who supported HRC.
I can't speak for everyone here, but I personally am not interested in engaging with anyone who insisted for months that Hillary was lying to the public by denying she was dying of at least a dozen diseases, who jumped on the pizzagate story and insisted it was true, who insisted that Obama was the worst president evah! and had sold-out the poor, the working-class, minorities, and the Party for his own glory, and who proudly declared they would vote third party or not vote at all because Trump being elected would be better than allowing Hillary/Dems to win.
Those who posted on JPR but did not engage in any of the above Reindeer Games are welcome here. Those who regurgitated RW talking points, or actually praised people like Gowdy, Pence, and Comey because they were anti-HRC/anti-Dem shouldn't be.
DU is supposed to be a Democratic-supporting site. Those who have already expressed their "opinion" that Democrats are corrupt evil-doers intent on destroying democracy have no place here - and their only reason for wanting to come back to DU is to be disruptive while spreading their "opinions" among people who obviously don't share them.