Reply #640: As a DU Old Timer who has been very close to cutting the cord this past year,

[stopbush]

I appreciate your thoughts.

Last week, I deleted my DU bookmark in my browser, resigned to visit only occasionally, and to become a lurker, rather than a regular poster. I looked at the fund-raising drive and decided to pass this time around, not that I've been a great giver to DU or anything, but I have consistently given a little to keep the place going.

So I'm one of those old farts (I turn 56 next month) who doesn't like the beating up on fellow Dems that has become SOP around here. Those of us who started voting decades ago (my first pres vote was for McGovern) and who went to the polls year after year, faithfully supporting Dems who - in retrospect - were much weaker candidates and politicians than is Obama, spent a long time in the political wilderness as the Rs won election after election and took this country down the spiral from which it may never recover. Now, here we are in a position of power, and it's the Ds who are beating up on Ds, like the members of a junta fighting out who will win the peace after the war has been won.

Well, I'm tired of it. I'm tired of people wanting Dems to fix yesterday what was screwed up yesterday. It doesn't work that way. You don't spend decades screwing things up and fix them overnight. We can all bitch that Obama is moving too slow on this or that, or that he's too much like an R on that or this, but the fact is that he has gotten more major legislative victories through the Congress in two years than most presidents get done in 8 years.

I don't know what the answer is for DU, but as a long time Dem who knows from long experience that we need to hang together or we will surely hang alone, that DU in its present form isn't helping. It may not even be hurting. It may simply be becoming irrelevant.