Reply #7: Since DU is going into decline...

[MrPrax]

I really don't think making it a 'premier' site with Progressive in it's title is a 'good thing'

There are already alternatives and "politically like-minded people" will find them...

Most forums on Du are dead...posts are few and far between, good ideas and links even fewer:

"2004 Campaign forums subdivided"...well same can be said for a chatboard dedicated to democratic thought...subdivided? Bush, Conservatives, and Conservatism? Civil Rights/Equality/Privacy? Environment/Energy/Science? Health/Education/Social Policy ? how much more sub-sub divided can there be? oh I know...Justice/Public Safety


"DU already gets some national attention." because 'democratic' is in it's name and media is lazy...

"20-40 years from now the Progressive movement"...doubt if there will be one

"if it can only be effectively harnessed"

harnessed to do what? Convince Progressives to 'vote' for one Yale grad that killed more commies than another Yale grad?

Sift the entrails of a knockdown debate where Al Franken pummels OReilly (got the plug-in? a MUST-SEE) and flys to Iraq to comfort the troops?

A thoughful discussion on what Chomsky might have pointed out about US policy and a flurry of 'chomsky was wrong about Faurisson, Derschowitz' threads?

etc etc

"a great assemblage of politically like-minded people"???
as debateable as the society we live in...