2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Many may still be sleeping, but the awakening has begun! [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)down the path of destruction and destabilizing the region, while he spent his spare time helping the cause of the wealthy at our expense.
I spent so much time back then opposing the war only to be ignored by the cameras as were many of us.
DU was much better however in many ways back then, we were united in opposing his trade deals and other republican goals, republican goals that are now gaining support here because they come out of the mouths of Third Way "Democrats" in office.
It was a long time ago and I did not post much, but joined Swamprat as one of the guys posting a ton of graphic art. I didn't find my voice until much later, now I find that sometimes I get replies that sound like the ones I used to get from republicans on comment sections of articles, only now they come from "Democrats". we didn't get that back then, except from the occasional troll, but now many here support republican policies from the 80's and 90's as they are now popular here with so many.
I miss the old site, because we were all liberal back then, with only one or two mostly ignored Conservative "Democratic" posters.