If we do not pull together on DU, we will fly apart.

[JanMichael]

102. Bullshit. Same old crap I've heard here since 2001.

Sky falling - pompous - do as I say regardless of the past - horsecrap.

DU is still here after the 2002-06 war war war days; the 2004 horror show election; the 2006 oh noes war and mid terms; the 2007 housing and all around economic collapse; the huge 2008 nasty primary and false euphoria election; the 2012 vote same old shit or else elections; and now the 2014 sky is falling cholera.

I vote Democratic over and over and over and over yet I am a hard core capital "L" leftist. We do it because we have no choice and Americans are too wimpy to ever have our real revolution. So we vote and weep and do it again.

We will continue to wallow in an oligarchic playground of the rich while millions are crushed by poverty. That's a fact for us that we accept.

The big hippy dippy so called liberals, that DUers love, talk about the middle class ad nausea but not about labor or poverty or living wages or the social programs that keep people barely above 2nd world standards of living. Ok maybe Sanders but he is also something of a bourgeois leftist and doesn't want any substantive economic recharge of the left. I like him personally but come on it will not happen. The rest are preservers of the system period.

But back to the chicken little nonsense - I'm not buying that at all. DUers may have some very conflicting member ideas but we all know we (DUers) are as good as we are ever going to get online. The worst of us is better that 99% of the rest. At least on a personal level. Most of us simply want to be around similar pleasant and decent people who don't have major racist or sexist or nasty thoughts running off their keyboards.

This thread will not make a difference because the sky is not falling - nothing will "fly apart" - on DU. This is a made up fear.