Why are you, er, a DU'er?

[Snoggera]

?

[ulysses]

1. manifest destiny. n/t

[NightTrain]

2. Coincidentally, I've been asking myself that very same question lately.

n/t

[havocmom]

3. Because the neocon junta isn't America

and I wanna help get the truth out and see if we can save the grand experiment.

Oh, and the comedy relief is helpful too.

[DarkPhenyx]

4. Some people would say I'm here just to piss people off.

It's not true of course. That's just a nice side benefit.

Seriously though. I'm here becasue I can't stand idiocy from the opposition, I am sure as hell not going to put up with it from my own side w/o giving it a fight.

That's just one reason though. There are others.

[KG]

5. well, somebody's got to tweek the conservatives....

[ulysses]

6. and you fulfill the role so well...

[ewagner]

7. So that

I can run wild and free with my own kind..........

sorry that just stuck with me from some movie in my childhood....

but it's kind of true.

[patriotvoice]

8. Because I'm also a "Freeper"

I subscribe to no party line, and I have to intimately understand both sides to define where I fit.

[SarahB]

9. I am drawn to it.

I have always been a bit more into politics than the average person, but a couple years ago, I got rather obsessive about it after the series of "misadventures" we began to face since November 2000. Fall 2002, DU was found and I soon signed up, but didn't post much until last Summer. Now, it's like a darn addiction at times.

[Angelus]

10. Because I'm a liberal...

and I have nothing else better to do.

[acmavm]

11. Because the alternative is just too damn repugnant.

At least here there's a general realization of what is wrong with this country, and how it is getting worse. And because I feel that I fit in. I dispise bush* and the nasty members of his greedy evil cabal. I understand the difference between good and evil. And I, like many others on this board, have read the Constitution of the Unites States and it's accompanying Bill of Rights. I grew up during the sixties and seventies, I've seen it all before. Having gone through that experience there no place I'd rather be.

[fujiyama]

12. Because

otherwise I am around people that are not very interested or informed about politics and current events, and I need a place where I can discuss these topics with people that share similar beliefs as me.