The Comments Section is on a Break

Dear Readers:

The Comments section of this Blog has been, for more than three years, an uncensored space where people of all points of view are free to post as they wish, without any screening by us. However, as I explained again recently, it is not a space where people will be allowed to make physical threats (or even pretend to make them) against me, my family or others associated with The Democracy Center, and if such a threat was posted one more time I would shut down the comments. Well, as those threats have continued, and as recent comments have degenerated into a juvenile battle of anonymous insults, I am keeping my pledge.

We'll open up the comments section again soon, after all those who think that insult and analysis are the same thing have had a chance to calm down and the anonymous threat makers have lost interest and gone back to sending hate mail to someone else.

The comments section here has often been a place of genuine and intelligent exchange, and we look forward to it becoming that once again in the near future.

Jim Shultz
The Democracy Center