Reply #128: August 2003

[eridani]

I was doing internet advocacy for Kucinich, and ran into DU somewhere or another. I hadn't worked for any candidate since Clean for Gene in 1968, was loosely affiliated with the Green Party, and mainly was an issue junkie, universal health care in particular. I joined local Dem organizations, and realized that you almost always get better policy from Democrats. Greens aren't really interested in party building, and besides direct issue advocacy I've come to realize that it really does matter who holds public office.

I stayed for the wide range of wonky expertise and the ability to be up to date on just about anything. I like the bulletin board format--way too hard to find stuff on Kos IMO. Just the other day we had a very useful rap on HDTV from someone in the industry. If personal or professional knowledge applies to a topic, people jump right in--from the standpoint of pilots, people who know the capabilities of all kinds of technology, emergency room docs, translators of Japanese--whatever you need to know it seems like somebody on the board can give you the right info.