Reply #19: I see it as a good thing. [View All]

Interlopers aside, DU has been a source of entertainment and education for me. I only found the place recently, after someone posted a link on a very popular website.

Perhaps we're no longer "underground", but I think that the good outweighs the bad. Sure, many of the long-timers miss the coffeehouse feel of DU. Sure, it's probably a little less personal than it was in the beginning, due to the current large membership.

The wonderful side effect of that is that our message is getting out to a wider range of voters. We have for too long been led to believe by the "liberal" (HA!) media that progressives represent a small minority of the US. That's a lie, plain & simple. The success of DU in recent months/years proves that we speak for a lot more of the public than we've been given credit for.

So, go DU! The more we band together, the stronger we will be at the polls.