Reply #8: But you can hate what they do.

[rrneck]

This is DemocraticUnderground. It is designed to be a blatantly partisan website. Conservatives get run off. The people that made DemocraticUnderground possible are still out there screwing up the country. On any given day how many derisive threads appear regarding the current crop of right wing crazies outrages against common decency and fairness?

We would all like to think our motivations are of the most high minded sort, but it just ain't so. We need a place to express our anger at someone or something other than ourselves. While there are a lot of very intelligent people here presenting a lot of brilliant ideas, I don't thing there has ever been, nor will there ever be a DemocraticUnderground white paper that directly influences public policy.

It seems to me this place is driven by emotion, and if we don't recognize our emotions and properly handle them, they will devour us.

Elections are not won through complacency. The only difference between us and them is we have a genuine reason to be angry.