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104. I am only too aware of that

This past year was the first time since joining DU that I took a long leave of absence. It was voluntary, not forced. I had a post hidden for the first time ever, being accused of equating Bernie Sanders with Hitler (I didn't, although I did equate the fanaticism of some of his supporters, to that of fanatic NSDAP supporters--but that wasn't mentioned as the reason for the hiding). When I saw the reasons for the hide, it was clear to me who was running the asylum here, and I left from February until after the convention in Philadelphia.

The primary season at DU became one long I-Hate-Hillary fest, with a few--far too few--exceptions. I didn't make up my mind for a while after that, and my first contribution, as a matter of fact, was $150 to the Sanders campaign. I wasn't yet convinced one way or the other, but I figured his was a voice that needed to be heard. The vitriol on DU got to be too much, and I said I don't need this, so auf Wiedersehen. I had heard about JPR, and so took a look. There were enough mixed nuts on DU already, and JPR just was a bigger jar, so I hung out at DFP when at all. It's small, but has 99% level heads, which was more my speed.

As for the spelling, it appears to be an almost standardized rule in some right wing circles to have a certain way of spelling things. I'm not talking about Russians, who are easy to spot for the most part. Russian does not have articles (a, an, the) and Russians tend to leave them out when writing English, or use them in the wrong places. Also, Russian does not have the verb "to be" in the present tense, so they are unsure how to use "is" or "are" until they are very practiced in English. "Vladimir Putin is a great leader" in Russian becomes "Vladimir Putin great leader." But the right wing in America seems to have gone beyond just "Democrat" instead of "Democratic." It seems to have started with the random incorrect use of an apostrophe to form a plural (e.g. "I hate the Clinton's&quot . That is a telltale BS perversion of English, as there isn't a school in the world that instructed school kids to use an apostrophe to form a plural in English where English has never used one--ever. Why Republicans do that, as well as using "there" for "they're" as so on, is beyond me. Maybe it's just a case of monkey see, monkey do. Maybe someone just saw a typo on a Fox Noise post, and figured since it was from Fox, it must be correct, and every other text in English for the last 300 years has been wrong.