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72. Really?

Thu Apr 30, 2026, 10:29 PM

Apr 30

What an interesting history! I was getting desperate after the 2000 election, just trying to find any reasonable political news and opinion. Hard to believe now how little there was at the time. Apparently, a lot of liberals were quite inactive (or perhaps underground?).

After 9/11, practically everything was ultra conservative, because no one in the media wanted to be perceived as "unpatriotic". I finally found a few openminded sites online and it was Democratic Underground that stuck over the years. I was a reader/lurker for a couple years before I finally signed up. I still have quite a few friends that I met here years ago and a few who have passed away.

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