It seems that we are having a racial food fight on the rec list. We seem to have a number of first-time posters fueling the conflict. I've heard several folks suggest that this is a Clinton strategy to win ugly, and promise to have nothing to do with her in the general. Might I suggest that, while the Clinton campaign is responding to events on the Daily Kos, they aren’t actually causing them.
Instead, we have a number of white nationalists that are trolling the site with the aid of a number of sock puppet accounts. This serves three purposes. Filling the reclist with a nasty fight over race jams our communications. Projects like crowd sourcing the fifty state strategy can’t get any oxygen while it’s going on. Secondly, it demotivates people from visiting the site. Finally, it sets up the argument that Progressives can’t win because people of color control the nominating process. This could be used to setup a campaign to either attempt to peel rank and file white progressives off to support a Trump bid or to setup a media narrative where Progressives want to purge people of color from the Democratic Party. The last would be very similar to the pressure put on Southern Republicans to support the Lilly White Republican movement in the early twentieth century.