This place in many ways has gone off the deep end. RE: Used car salesman

[karynnj]

45. It might be the change from DU 2 to DU 3

There were two huge forums - GD and GDP. Though the latter was supposed to be politics and then later related to the President, I think it really turned into two parallel groups each with their own culture. GD had many who were openly to the left of the Democratic party or who only approved of people to the left of Dennis Kuchinich. In addition, some were likely more libertarian than liberal.

As a person who supported John Kerry more than any other politician, I was FAR more comfortable in GDP - even posting articles that dealt with the SFRC or Kerry actions in GDP. At first, I would try to get some connection to the President to justify this. Eventually, I just stayed in GDP.

DU 3, while having a Politics 2014, does not really have two threads that were really general. Over time, many people - very comfortable on GDP have found DU not very friendly. I suspect this plus the Snowden accusations that moved some people against the President have led to the overall population being far more critical of all mainstream Democrats. This is self perpetuating because it makes more and more people frustrated with what it has become.