HEY DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP! I know you troll this place. Listen up.

[JNelson6563]

134. I've only done state level stuff, for the most part.

And yet I realize there is a need for consensus. I know it is hard to get everyone on board to work in tandem to achieve a common goal. Compromise is on the menu every single day. Such efforts as these draw only scorn and disdain from many a DUer. I always find that pretty telling.

I realize there are activists on DU, I am personal friends with some of them. Sadly though way too many posts here are by people with little or no clue as to how it all works.

And you can always tell how much someone has invested in an effort by how quickly they are willing to throw over their support at every turn. I remember when I first got involved in politics. Worked so hard, really did all I could along with many others. We took losses and scored occasional wins. The losses hit or if some Dem somewhere in the world did something wrong we certainly weren't about to completely negate our efforts. Some jerk in DC from-bob-knows-what-state did something or said something wrong, watch the many DUers issuing their threats. If this isn't addressed exactly as I want it I am done with the Dems!1!

Yeah, when you see this nonsense all the time you realize you are reading words from people with little to no skin in the game.

Back to the topic of big time players reading DU, take a good look here. Do you really think there is information here that they can't access otherwise? Seriously?

And I am sure you don't think our leadership would benefit from reading all the IF only Obama went to Wisconsin!1! posts? Yeah, if they read that stuff they'd definitely be inspired by such wisdom and insight. Or perhaps the brilliant, insightful Obama's the same as Bush brigade posts would show them that this place is nothing but a powerhouse of political genuis.

I've had the good fortune to serve the Democratic cause in a state level leadership position that I was elected to in a 14 county district (ever run a 14 county race? Challenging stuff). I have enjoyed working with both of our Senators, our Gov before Snyder the fascist got in, loved working with our state House leadership (one of THE most brilliant people I ever met, Dianne Byrum), even did an event for Elizabeth Edwards when she came to my part of the world It was great fun. Really enjoyed meeting her. I feel fortunate to have been able to do these things and more, as in very lucky~~certainly not necessarily deserving or entitled to.

In fact, when I worked with the Pres. advance team in 04 and sort of dropped some of DU's uber-negative terminology it became apparent to me very quickly, that wasn't how they played it out there in reality. It was actually during that ridiculously busy political year that I really learned how very different the real political world and the world of DU are.

With all of that said, DU can be a very informative place for news and such for us civilians and gawd knows I find a lot of the humor here to be absolutely priceless. If I were in the big leagues (federal level) I wouldn't need it for news and wouldn't have time for the rest. When I was in the minor leagues (state level) I found DU to be an often discouraging place.

I realize you probably weren't really looking for anything in response from me but there it is. Some background as to how I came to see DU as I do. Hard to believe there are people who think DU is actually some big presence out in the world, just because it is so in their world. For some inexplicable reason I find that rather annoying.

Julie