Politics on Twitter

I am ashamed to admit that I was duped by so-called progressives on Twitter. I know better than to trust big egos and water downed liberal justice.

There is a repulsive quality found on Twitter where certain men, and I will not name names here, think they have invented the whole idea of political organization. For example, if someone tweets about progressive politics and Twitter and is not part of the “insider Nazi group” that began, let’s say a hashtag, that individual is scoffed, at best, as a moron.

Interesting.

When I first found the hashtag on diversity (in February 2009) about 4 people were having a discussion that I watched on monitter.com. It was most likely at the tail end. I DM’d the leader, but he didn’t respond. Then I DM’d another participant. I asked, “How can I join this discussion?”

She replied, “You’ll have to ask the leaders.”

I should have known right at that moment that I was doomed. This wasn’t about democratic justice, it was about egos.

The “leader” did respond later that night and we had a nice, long Facebook exhange. When I mentioned the name calling and insult slinging that seemed common, I was told it wasn’t that bad or that common.

Not true.

The namecalling, insult slinging and down right rudeness is internally and externally apparent.

Immature men, whether hippies or pundits or just plain assholes, need to stay away from politics. Or, I guess, more appropriately, I need to stay away from them.

I will never vote for them, that is for sure, and I will never engage in their so called Twitter movement either. Movement toward what? A bunch of disgruntled, frustrated mostly white men who can only think in terms of binary oppositions. How tired.

I did get duped, but never again.