[Sock Puppet]

I think he took a lot of stuff personally that wasn't meant to be. He also kept making assumptions about some posters' positions, including mine, that just weren't true. I wasn't gracious about it, either, but I do wish he'd realized that none of us disagreed with him to the extent he thought. I get pretty pissed when someone ascribes motives to me that I absolutely don't have, so I returned his "fuck off" with a "fuck off."

I get that the Sanders campaign gave him a feeling of hope and accomplishment that's rare in politics. But elections in the US -- especially Presidential elections -- are an absolute shitshow, and they're a helluva thing to pin one's hopes on. I never wanted to squash his hopes and desire to help people get a fair shake, but he seemed to interpret a lot of comments as such.

I also think it absolutely sucks that we had a couple candidates to feel good about voting for (his was Sanders, mine was Warren), rather than just someone to vote against, and that was yanked away from us. Yet again. And Trump's non-stop stream of poison has made everybody angrier than ever before, including those who keep swallowing it as well as those who hate it. Plus, with the current health crisis (on top of the one we already had), the tension and anger is so thick that it's damned difficult to contain the ugliness. I won't pretend I'm any good at it.