I really considered it. The only reason I came back really has nothing to do with the election or the people here. I came back not even to piss off the DLCers. (That's a fringe benefit, admittedly.)
I came back because I am thinking about, once the furor over everything dies down...to start interest communities on issues peripheral to progressivism. DU is a good community for that and the site-platform for message boards is well-designed. (For example, I've long thought about...after some conversations here...about starting an interest group for poly-aware activism; possibly one for sexual minorities, broader than specifically just LGBTQ concerns. (Though they are certainly welcome too. As you'll see if you keep reading...it ultimately is about the "grand coalition" as an effort-focus too) Some other communities.) It's not intrinsic to progressivism or the Democratic party...but the vast majority of people in marginal groups such as these happen to be political progressives. Here is a good place to start that activism because DUers are fairly-explicitly activistic and progressive. If it has the outcome of making their issues more visible and something that Democrats care about or forging alliances within the grand coalition, all the better. (That's what's missing in the post-(Bill)Clinton era, I now realize...the grand coalition of Democratic concerns. There was a time when economic progressives fought for civil rights not because they necessarily cared about civil rights (though a great number of them did as-well, such as Sen. Sanders) but because we're on the same side and reprocipity was not only expected but more-or-less demanded as part of the deal of being part of the coalition of interests within the Democratic party.)
I just haven't bothered even starting to organize such efforts or find the requisite number of interested supporters or write a group SoP. Once I do, I will probably cut my posting outside of those areas to almost non-existent. DU makes me annoyed politically more often than I enjoy being here many days.
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