Why, in your mind, Does DU exist?

[MoseyWalker]

It, at times, causes me to become dangerously close to insane, but other times causes me to understand the reasons why I used to think I was able to withstand the world.

So?

edited for a friggin comma

[Skittles]

1. I live in f***ing north Texas

I'd go insane without the sanctuary of the DU

[helderheid]

24. Utah!

:hi:

[Skittles]

25. YOU KNOW IT, helderheid

I don't like it when we all get stereotyped as backwards bush-lovers but, well, we surely do know a few! :hi:

[T_i_B]

2. Because of what happened in Florida in 2000.

[MADem]

8. Precisely. It saved my sanity, that's for sure. NT

[bananas]

3. To make us aware of the importance of

friggin commas.

[MoseyWalker]

4. ding dang wiggly biggly

you could be right.

perhaps not, but possibly

[Esra Star]

5. To keep the Lounge people off the streets.

[wake.up.america]

6. In part, so people as myself can visit a more sane America.

[GreenTea]

32. Maybe it's to keep all of us off the streets from protesting...

in place of spewing out our anger behind our keyboards.

[Robeson]

7. To talk, discuss, and inform, with people who share...

...a common interest. It's a community of like minded - well sometimes - individuals.

[OneBlueSky]

9. for my emotional health and sanity . . . n/t

.

[Porcupine]

10. It's a contrast to the "Librul media."

Where liberal issues actually get some air and discussion without the pile-driver noise of the freepers disrupting.

[fasttense]

11. To get out of freeperland. Most political sites back in

2004 were overrun by manic freepers who called anyone with a slight liberal bent names and constantly shouted. You could not have a decent discussion about any political issue without some idiotic freeper calling names and gloating. DU allowed for real political discussion that was all but banned on other sites.

[conscious evolution]

12. To right a terrible wrong

is why DU exists.
To give us hope.
To remind us there is a better way.
To end the despair of helplessness.
To remind us that we can be agents of change.
To give us a common voice.
To restore the rightful President of The United States-Al Gore.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. It's one of the few places where I feel safe to voice an opinion. Most of my coworkers and

neighbors are kool-aid drinkers and Southern Baptists.

[madokie]

16. I was raised around a bunch of kool-aid drinking southern Baptist myself

so I can definitely un'nerstand where you're coming from

[geiger]

14. It's the rest of the world that is insane; that is bound to make us crazy some days

[madokie]

15. all to keep me from going nuts

hmmmm, too late i'm already nutter'en a fruitcake

[TahitiNut]

23. Hey! Let's not imply that's a Bad Thing™, OK?

:dunce: :hi:

[blm]

17. IMO, it is a place where we speak as CITIZENS searching for truth from our government

To fight against corruption and FOR open government and where we can support the Democratic heroes who work to lead those battles.

[izzybeans]

18. It started for one big reason and remains for countless of others.

It has a life of its own because of this fact.

It exists and for that I'm happy.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

19. To Re-elect Al Gore!!! n/t

[bryant69]

20. Because Skinner wants it to

And because somehow I keep ending up here?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[snowbear]

26. And Skinner ROCKS.....

And he's pretty damn hot at that...




YOWzwer!!

[slackmaster]

21. It's a sole propretorship fueled by anger over the elections of 2000 and 2004

And I hope Skinner is making a decent living off of it.

[TahitiNut]

22. It began as a place to get a "sanity check" in a country seemingly gone insane.

It was, at the beginning, a place where politically-aware liberals could exchange perspectives and gain some assurance that we weren't hallucinating - that the nation was in thrall to an orchestrated and well-funded disinformation campaign from the extreme right.

It has since become something else, either in addition to or supplanting the above. For some of us, either too cowardly or too indolent to engage in real world struggles and confront bigotry and greed in our communities, it's a place to engage in 'flight deck' vigilantism, attacking those childhood monsters under our comfortable beds, in the persons of safer targets - targets that aren't as scarey as the real thing. For some of us, unable or unwilling to take personal responsibility for our own governance by directly participating in that governance and risking our comforts, safety, and our very lives, it's a place to attack those who do step forward - candidates for office and military personnel, current or former - shifting the blame for our own decades-long indolence and cowardice to handy scapegoats: those who've done more and risked the most.

I'd like to look forward to a time when we're all ready, willing, and even eager to put our own asses on the line - risking life, limb, and liberty to stand up for our own governance instead of "letting George do it." I'd really like to - but I'm not that optimistic.

[diva77]

27. It's the "sane" asylum!!

:crazy:

[FrenchieCat]

28. Because they stole the fucking elections.......

gave us a corrupt biased media, and told us to STFU! that's why!

[Bobbie Jo]

29. Sanctuary of Sanity. n/t

[LaPera]

30. What is life? What does it all mean?

Blond 18 year old girls, twins, if possible?

BTW that "comma" made all the difference in the world as far as impact for me.

[MoseyWalker]

31. The meaning of life is

learning the difference between angels and angles.

Well, maybe one meaning.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

33. To raise by blood pressure via an odd combination of homophobes and people I find too liberal.

:rofl: