How did you come by your username?

[YellaDog1950]

145. Will only vote for a Democrat + the year of my birth.

I've steeped myself in politics and history since the age of 17. Prior to that I had a Democrat grandfather who was heavily involved in politics and had me handing out cards and knocking on doors when I was 5. Thus, I'd vote for a yella dog before I'd vote for a......well, you know the rest.

I've spent the last several years on a forum that is filled with tea baggers, libertarians, republicans, and Rush lovers. I realized that no matter how level-headed I remained, no matter how non-confrontational I was, it was evident I would never make a dent in the Faux News lies they had absorbed into their cellular make-up. I finally left them. I'm sure they're now bored without a socialist, liberal, communist, nazi (how can I possibly be all those things at once? on which to vent their anger.

From being a long-time lurker here, I am now beginning to post some. I love DU. It's comfortable, it's coming home.