First, I am now Officially Thrilled to have found this place. It will be some time before the shell-shock of the changes at TOP have provided me dissipates. Thanks for this.

This morning I posted a piece on a group of people somewhere - 4chan was blamed - for making up a fake meme about Bernie buying an expensive car with donor's money.

Unbelievers try to tar Bernie with expensive sports car claim. And fail.

It is sourced from Snopes, properly documented and all, but it has functioned as a Rorschach test. The word I used - "unbeliever' has just ruffled all sorts of undies, most likely of those who are not in support of Mr. Sanders, but I have no real proof. (rolls eyes, whistles cutely)

"Unbeliever" has been like pouring bleach on the ground to draw up worms. They have come out of the woodwork to wail and whine and gnash their teeth and...you know. It's insane.

Yesterday, at the landscaping job (that I went to college and grad school and worked every hard to avoid getting but now enjoy because the economy is so fucked) I mowed for 6.5 hours. An hour and a half in the rain. Provided me with a long time to meditate on the shit that is happening at TOP.

Kos has opened the door to bullying. Plain and simple. Suck up to Hillary or your days are numbered and all the partial personalities are running with the impunity of kittens playing near a dog that is chained.

I am more than capable of dealing with bullying but Kos has hobbled defense of Bernie, essentially. Not in so many words, but an excellent example of oblique strategy.

The other thing is it looks like - and please correct me if I am wrong - but it appears there is huge attrition of Bernie supporters there. A mix of people just giving up, folks terrified by not knowing what's OK and what's not (and rabid Clintonites blurring the boundaries), and those who maybe said Hasta La Vista and just came here.

While I am feeling significantly muzzled, it is my nature to not give up easily (usually) and to find a route through or around. While I suck miserably at chess, it has provided me with the idea that one needs to look for more and more angles to win something that might appear doomed at first glance. That's what I was doing while mowing yesterday: thinking about angles.

However, mulling it over for hours left me with little doubt that the site is morphing significantly into something that it was not just a year ago and that is going to have no place for me or my views or beliefs.

I am not sure what will happen after the primary and we have an actual (versus theoretical) nominee. Will this shit calm down?

It might settle down, like it did after the Obama -Clinton primary war but I don't know.

The flavor has changed though. Attacking Bernie supporters has been greenlighted and defense by Bernie supporters is hobbled.

Unsure if it will pull out of it or if Daily Kos will become something that it was not just a years ago (in my estimations) and that would a place where what I call "weenieism" is rewarded.

And I cannot deal with that.