2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I am Very Disappointed with the Democratic Party [View all]pat_k
(9,313 posts)Your history here at DU is similar to many others, including my own. I hope your post gives some of the "later arrivals" a clearer sense of what this place has been to its members.
In the aftermath of the 2000 (s)election, I got involved through the old TableTalk political boards. There was a migration of TableTalkers over to DU in the aftermath of the 2004 election. The "January 6th" lobbying project was a focus of intense activity here, across "the internet," and in the "real world."
Then there were the efforts to lobby members of the House to Impeach Bush, lobby members of the Senate to filibuster Alito, and lobby for the "public option" in health care reform, just to name a few of the many projects DUer's have been actively involved in.
From the beginning, I looked forward to seeing your posts.
Like you, my involvement dropped off, eventually to nothing, until my enthusiasm for Sanders brought me back.
I still believe the Democratic Party can be redeemed -- that transforming from within is possible. However, whether we are working for change as members of the Democratic Party, or as members of a third party, we are in the same fight as far as I'm concerned.
It is absolutely not about party affiliation. It's about what we think needs doing and making some effort to see it gets done.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.