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How is this man SO close to being President of the United States?
You know, this guy: I don't understand it. I really don't. President Barack Obama may not be perfect, he has made mistakes, his supporting cast may not always have his back, and he faces an...
View ArticleHi, right wing? Its the left. We need to talk.
Hello my fellow political brothers and sisters on the right. Its been a long, emotional election season. It was a tough 3 years before that, and in those three years the lines of communication between...
View ArticleSome thoughts
These past couple of years have been an enlightening period to a sociologically inclined person. What we saw in the run up into the 2012 election season was the sociological theory of confluence,...
View ArticleCourtesy Kos: A Re-Introduction
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View ArticleThanks to my benefactor -- One year later.
It was this time last year that the Subscription drive was in full swing. I was poor, about to lose my apartment and move in with my in-laws who only had a very slow dial up connection. When I asked to...
View ArticleEveryone who disagrees with me is a moron or teabagger.
Not worthy of being called a progressive. In fact, I might even put quotation marks around the word progressive, just to show how much they are NOT progressive. Because they disagree with me. They are...
View ArticleWe LIVE here. This is our home.
Everyone is tearing themselves apart over whether this Fiscal Cliff deal amounted to a "betrayal" or was a "win", and that is an argument that needs to be had. There is a place for substantive...
View ArticleMaking a community.
Dailykos is truly a wonder, an oasis of positivity and light in, what is largely, a dark, nasty, cold world of internet politics. It is a true oddity that so many of our commenters and diarists are so...
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The Human Behind the User Handle
This weekend has been one of the most disappointing I have seen in a while on dkos. Seriously, the acrimony here is rising to the level of becoming almost unbearable. The fighting and bickering and...
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Kos has spoken.
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View ArticleGood News Everyone -- Marketplace Enrollments Hit 5,000,000 (and OMGIB!)
The US Department of Health and human services released its new marketplace enrollment numbers, and they look good, despite the republicans best efforts to kill the law now insuring millions of...
View ArticleBrace Yourselves -- The "Democrats in Disarray" Cycle is coming. Or is...
Its everyone's favorite time in the political season -- that special time when pundits predict the imminent doom of the Democratic majority in the Senate. Yes, that special time when, night after night...
View ArticleLosing isn't a strategy.
I know I am mostly preaching to the choir about this, but I have seen this idea floated on my facebook newsfeed a couple of times, and now a "half kidding, satirical" diary about losing our majority in...
View ArticleThoughts on Graduation. I am terrified.
Lost another couple of hours of sleep last night, thinking about the position I am in, about to be thrown into the gaping maw of the job market. Only 11 weeks now until it is put up or shut up time....
View ArticleThe story that needs to be told.
If we, as democrats, are ever going to escape the "Democrats in Disarray" narrative that is being trotted out by teevee news pundits once again, there is an essential story that needs to be told to the...
View ArticleNot a good way to make friends and influence people.
As I was going through my daily perusal of the GOS, I stumbled upon a diary that I had missed last Friday, and RKBA thread with over 700 comments. I decided that I would give the diary a look and see...
View ArticleMonday Morning Meta: Factions and Improving Community
You know, I have been at dailykos for a pretty long time and in that time I have seen a lot of nasty dust ups between people who largely agree about everything. The interpersonal drama on dailykos is,...
View ArticleI am getting so sick of the attacks on teachers.
On Saturday, my fiancee and I decided to go out for a good time. I am just now getting over some sort of weird flu/cold which made me feel like shit for a couple of days, so I wanted to go out and have...
View ArticleTim McVeigh is Cheering on Cliven Bundy from Hell.
I am a busy college student who is taking 24 credits, working on a senior project and trying to find a job for when I get out of college all at the same time, so I haven't really been keeping up with...
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