A Sincere Tribute To DUers Who Kept US Sane During the Bush Era. Will Pitt For One. Add Others!

[KoKo]

74. Thank You, Sabrina 1, because your post is True about why Will Pitt has and deserves support!

Let me be clear, here. Will and I had some "bad blood" at times in the early days. And, I well know how he can be taken badly when he "Vents."

But, I will not trash a "Seeker of Truth" here on DU. Will was in his late 20's along with the DU Admins back in those early days of the founding of DU.

I was older and the clashes were somewhat generational at times here on DU because at first the DU Admins didn't really reveal how young they were. Many of us "Early Sign Ups" on DU were so distraught over the Florida Vote and Supreme Court installing Bush that we felt ACTION had to be done. Many of us lived through the 60's and 70's in our young years and lost classmates to the DRAFT for VIETNAM and we had been part of Ralph Nader's Revolution to support "Consumer Rights" when our cars were breaking down and we worried about our Consumer Product s not being SAFE for either all of US and about our Environment...and all lurking was the WAR we were spending money on and our friends, brothers and classmates were dying in. All the "Back to Organic Food" was looming on the horizon as we wanted to grow food without Pesticides that could Kill People, Animals and Insects. We wanted to protect our Wildlife ....WORLD WIDE from Preditor Hunting and save the Rivers, Oceans and Planet. People were seeing that Consumerism was rising and we wanted Back to the Earth Sustainable Products and products made out of Natural Fibers and not Oil Products exploiting our resources.

There's so much more we tried to do and Skinner, Earl G. and Elad...got hit with those of us wanting a "DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND" to express our anger and start a New Movement.

As Skinner has said, though.....Democratic Underground was not meant to be a Site that Supported "INSURRECTION" but a site that SUPPORTED DEMS over REPUBLICANS. At that point they were focused on RW Sites who were a threat to the Dem Party.

So....in some ways "DU" to them morphed into some kind of "Insurrection Group" that was going off in direction that they never imagined and really didn't know how to deal with .......and we go on to Today...where DU is a Hillary Supporter and the "Insurgents who Hoped to Make the Dem Party Differently" are now fighting against the True Purpose of the Founding of this Site......and it makes for Confrontations that are uncomfortable to Both Sides.

Sorry...I've got project to finish for work and this post probably has typo's and whatever. I posted it off top of my head...which is never good to do. But, as a Long Time DU'er I had to Chime In....with what I know about the History here.

Peace!


Anyway. Thank you for a "Sincere" Post about Support for Will Pitt.