The DU is like visiting the Snake Pit
I'm still registered over there and have been for some time. I'm kind of amazed I lasted this long. I want to stay there to track things during elections for the fun of it. After the 2002 Demo-Disaster they closed the board to member only because people started posting "Nyah-Nyah" messages.
It is heartening to go to their archives and read the election postings. By the next day they were all ready to throw themselves off a building, move to Canada etc. Now they all want to move to France! But they are all still there.
They all sound like old Chiang Kai Shek did, about taking mainland China back from Mao. Every year he would make a big speech, "This year we return to the mainland". After the first few years it became a standing joke.
These guys constantly talk about "taking back the illegally stolen White House and the Senate", because "everyone knows GWB killed Paul Wellstone and Paul was going to be the next President in 2004".
These folks make Barbra Streisand look like a right winger. They spend a tremendous amount of time P----ing on each other for supporting one candidate or the other. Anyone that supports Estrada is considered a traitor and the use of foul language is like an Osbornes family film fest. Not a polite place by any means.
Also some very interesting policies, from what I've experienced.
When you post the first couple of times you get a "Welcome" message from the Moderators that mentions your city and name, as in; "We know who you are and we will be watching you". I've been keeping my posts limited to relatively non-controversial issues. If you have less than 1000 posts your point of view and authenticity as a true liberal Democrat is frequently questioned or outright dissed.
I found one guy getting kicked off by a moderator because he had the nerve to suggest that just maybe Bush wasn't evil incarnate and that the Florida election problems weren't a vast consipracy and maybe the Democrats should focus on reviewing their policies instead of playing a blame game all the time. He got dumped after 6 posts.
Dissent or a different opinion, of any kind, is not tolerated. Youmust adhere to a policy that George Bush and his whole family are the epitome of all that is evil and John Ashcroft is the handmaiden of Satan himself. Not too many gun policy discussions, since everyone already knows they are evil and all gun owners only want their children to die, right?
For a bunch of hard core liberals, I just have to say, "Where's the love people?" The most intolerant site I have ever seen.
Don P.
I think I'll go to the range tomorrow and repent 
