On the Limits of News Consumption

[Willie Pep]

4. Many DUers are involved in local politics.

I am not sure about other types of activist work but I wouldn't be surprised if we had many activists here too. But DU is more of a partisan (I don't mean that in a bad way) website and I think that is OK.

There are a lot of activist websites for the Left but sadly many of them have become dominated by cranks who convince people that nothing can be done about America short of an armed revolution (good luck with that), that there is no difference between the major parties and that people should not bother to vote because it is a waste of time. You saw a lot of this kind of stuff in 2016 along with calls to vote for Jill Stein. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these "activists" were conservative trolls trying to convince left-wingers to stay home.

I soured on a lot of activist and left-wing websites in 2016 and came to DU because the discussion is more reasonable and constructive than on many other websites. I don't want to put a damper on activism or say that the Democrats don't have problems and need to develop better strategies moving forward but there is just too much craziness on other left-wing websites and that really turned me off.