He is acting like the site is for sale and if Hillary wins, it will show how much influence the site has, because he has thousands of members and they and friends vote the way he wants them to.
That drives the price higher.
He is one of the 1% and we have seen the slant of news as the talking heads are more and more of the 1%.

There have always been foreign policy "realists" in the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies though over the past 15 years they're fewer in number due to attrition and neocon factions bringing in their own, according to a retired colonel whose blog I read regularly. But you only have to look at Martin Dempsey and Sy Hersh's recent article "Military to Military" to see that there are people in these agencies who are fed up with new hybrid neocon + R2P interventionist policy that is taking this country right off a cliff. Unfortunately, Obama's latest round of appointees brought in more hawks (Carter, Dunford et al) and I have no idea why he brought them in. But there are still rational people around. Personally, I've been praying they'd keep us from deliberately bringing a world war.

I do believe that when we confront White Privilege, there is a cycle we go through where everything seems like it could be racist. But that's just a temporary obstacle, and I have found it worth overcoming in order to continue to explore.

I do believe that many people don't get that Bernie's Jewish and how that makes it ludicrous to try and paint him as some white racist/sexist/whatever. I read many commenters at DK who wrote that they didn't even NOTICE Bernie was Jewish, insinuating that being Jewish was no longer any kind of reality to deal with.

To a Jew, I found that unbelievably ignorant and annoying. Do we have to be actually roasting in the ovens for us to have an ethnic identity? Oy!

I loved your description of Bernie as rabbi. I can see him at the great schools of learning challenging any bullshit he'd hear from the other rabbis and holding his ground very well.

to have a great deal of wisdom and compassion behind it without being preachy about it.

Do you really believe that? I don't think what's happening to him is that "shady" (as the hipster term has seemed to be popping up everywhere and also has a Black connotation I hadn't encountered before).

He's probably having a middle-aged crisis, lol.

Do you remember when the bloggerz began to post on the Intertubes?

Atrios, Josh Marshall, Markos, Jerome, the Crooks & Liars guy (which was revolutionary in its time, can't overstate that) - anyway a bunch of white MILLENNIALS who found a voice on the internet as well as incredibly talented computer wizards (probably also MILLENNIALS) and BOOM!

So perhaps the CIA pays attention to it (I know the NSA does) and for sure there's tons of operatives at that site, it's not even a secret. But no, I remember those guys and they really did create something new. If the CIA was involved, then the CIA is a lot more creative than I'd give them credit for.

Since I first joined DKos in 2008 I felt like that too; the way the site worked was unique and very, very good; far superior to other sites that had comments in many ways. That was what made it the best place online for discussion and community-type groups. There were always problems too, big ones like with the HRs and so-called community moderation, and there were always problems with Kos and his capricious rule-setting and enforcement policies being impossible to follow and ridiculously unfair and random. But despite all that, the way the site worked was still addictive enough to keep me going back for a long time and accepting those drawbacks.

With the advent of DK5, however, they actually lost (tossed out) a lot of that, the core functions that used to be special about it just are not the same now. It is more generic and more difficult to use. I have to say I was surprised at how out of touch Kos seemed about the way the site actually works and is used by the regulars. And how much he seemed to really not care about the negative ways the change hit the people and communities that congregat(ed) there, despite his claims to the contrary.

So I had already started finding myself wandering away more often and for longer times, leaving sooner when I did visit, just not feeling the same about it anymore. Then the edict, along with the new snotty attitude and open hostility to Bernie Sanders and his supporters and campaign, and then openly kow-towing to the establishment and centrist/conservative democrats, and making everyone else on the site do the same... just yuck! It's lost its appeal and I have little desire to even look at it anymore.

I am so very grateful for this wonderful alternative!