Today, I have stopped following around a dozen people and unFriended an equal number. Several are people with whom I first connected here.
The reason is simple, and also sad.
As I read through items on both FaceBook and Twitter, these were people who were Bernie supporters who were expressing outrage and anger that the FBI was not recommending an indictment of Hillary Clinton.
Some of what I read from them and to what they linked was more vitriolic and nastier than much of what I was seeing from right-wingers.
I decided I did not need to have that malarkey (I could use a much stronger term) coming into my timeline or my newsfeed.
But it is truly sad how vitriolic — and might I suggest out of touch with reality — some of these expressions are.
I am not a lawyer, although I grew up in a family full of lawyers, including a state Assistant Attorney General (my mother) and an appellate Judge (my great-uncle). I know lots of lawyers, some of whom are prosecutors or have been in both state and federal systems. Of the people I know who fit those categories, none ever expected, based on the facts in the case, to see an indictment.
Knowledgeable people have been saying this for months.
I believe the FBI said that Clinton was not a target.
Interviewing her Saturday was a necessary final step to close the matter.
That they so quickly were able to announce they were not recommending charges makes it clear how much of a “nothing burger” this was as far as criminal charges.
Yes, Republicans will try to make as much of this as they can.
That Democrats, that Progressives, react this way is not acceptable to me.
Can we focus on the future, please? This country has a lot at stake.