I am an older white woman, a retired teacher.

[asjr]

73. I, too, am an older woman--I'll

be 82 this year. I joined in 2002 when I received a gift of a computer from my baby sister. I knew DU was for me because of its liberal bent. I was able to call GWB many ugly names and feel good about it. More than anything I could write and not be called names myself. I have been slowing down in recent years as I do not feel as accepted as before. So many on DU that I knew have left and now I sometimes am hesitant to start a new op. There is much name-calling now in
some messages and some ops consist only about two people arguing about something. I see too many of those and skip to some other presentation. DU could probably render news of the U.S. and the rest of the world because it seems to be more thorough. That is why I still hang around.
Could be I simply have no patience with anyone blasting others over who or what is right.