Reply #23: This site was set up on Inauguration Day 2001, [View All]

partly in protest of the stolen election, and partly as a place where progressives could meet and discuss politics without being drowned out by noise from the right wing. A few months later, Skinner was interviewed on C-SPAN about this web site, and he said that he was looking for Democrats and other progressives to join. A lot of us who were politically aware in the '70s and before know what truly progressive Democrats can accomplish, but we don't see anything near that in today's political climate. So, some DU members have become disenchanted with what the current Democrats are doing-- or not doing-- but they still hold on to the ideals that brought them to this site in the first place.