Democrat's Apathy For Unions Is Suicide

[sabrina 1]

168. Many of the best DUers have moved on to other venues where issues like this are still as

important as they used to be. Ever since people began to see the change in DU from what was once a site to promote Democratic values, to where people who make excuses for NOT doing so, grew in numbers and for many activist Dems it isn't worth wasting time simply refuting what are essentially right wing talking points, when there is real work to be done.

DU used to be far more actively involved. And DUers still are, just not here.

Manny has a far bigger following than MM eg. So there are still majority here who still care about important issues, but nowhere near the numbers there used to be.

I won't say they were driven out, they chose to go.

We have some great Liberal Organizations now who are actually doing things like finding our own candidates, raising funds to support them, and winning in many cases. PCCC eg, is one of them. Working to rebuild the party from the ground up.

Union issues on DU would have had huge responses when the best of DU were still around.

I and a few others stay only because there are still a few of the old DUers still here who now are often attacked unbelievably on this forum, the way they used to be on Free Republic eg because they still believe that the issues that were important during the Bush years are still important.