Ok.. Hold Onto Your Hats... I'm Going Positive... With Much Love To DU !!!

[sabrina 1]

4. Great trip down memory lane. It's strange how so many people turned to the internet after the

stolen election. I knew nothing about political websites, I used the internet for fun mostly. It's as if there were all these people wandering in the desert trying to find a place to go to make sense of what was going on, and to find out if they were the only ones who were having these terrible feelings of foreboding.

I was not into politics much at all, but I can only say I had very, very bad feelings about Bush, and I didn't even know much of what had happened re the stolen election.

I guess I got curious, no one in real life that I knew seemed to be bothered by anything, so I went online, found a political website which I thought was the only one on the internet, and ended up fighting with Bush supporters for the next two years. One day someone posted a link to what I know now was Alternet. Omg, I couldn't believe it, a place where people actually wrote coherently and didn't attack you every time you said something negative about Bush, which was everyday. There were people there from all over the world. Anyhow, I signed up and eventually became a moderator there and we had the absolutely best people including from several Muslim countries, from whom I learned nearly everything I know.

I used to go back to the other board, and I don't know if they noticed, but I was a lot more informed and better able to destroy their talking points since I had a secret source of information.

During the 2004 election was when I first discovered DU. I had found FR and was horrified as I used to lurk there and was terrified of them. But DUers made me realize there was nothing to fear. They were funny, witty, with great spirit and I felt so much better about our side.

Mostly I lurked in the beginning, but without DU I have to say, I don't think I would have made it in a state of sanity after the election, if it had not been for DU. I miss a lot of people, including some like Elizabeth Edwards who posted here for a while.

Thanks Willy