I joined here a couple of weeks ago -- after 10 often rough years on Daily Kos, and intense disappointment at just how off-putting that site had become. I tried to tamp down over-heated reactionaries and as a result, I endured accusations of being racist, anti-Arab colonial Zionist, pro-Arab anti-Semite, being a neo-con, a neo-lib, and a delusional free-stuff loving Clinton-hating sexist misogynist.