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370. That's pretty funny considering that

there's a core group here who make a career of drive-by insults on liberals and rarely participate in any other way. Taverner's posts were passionate, but they were substantive.

There are some here who would be happy if DU consisted of a daily dispensing of the corporate administration talking points and little else, and they spend their time trying to disrupt and provoke.

DU used to have vibrant discussions about progressive issues. It was not unusual for posts to garner hundreds of responses and develop into wide-ranging discussions of liberal policy and how to enact it. The typical discussion on DU now is hijacked immediately by the familiar band of corporate posters insulting liberals and spewing the corporate line. Chronic posting in defense of predatory economic and neocon (now neoliberal) policies used to be grounds for an immediate tombstoning at DU, but the very same garbage is now not only tolerated, but protected, as long as a politician with a "D" after his name supports it. It is no surprise that so many good progressives have chosen to leave or vent their disgust at the Third Way infiltration of our party and this community.

There are multiple posters here who are chronically ruder and more disruptive than Taverner, and who never have contributed the quality of posts that Taverner did during his time here.