What could DU have done better?

[mahina]

I know everybody's feeling low but let's take a minute and consider how we can be more effective next time around?

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Actually working on campaigns...

instead of bullshitting on a discussion board?

[mahina]

7. I am very sure lots of us worked on campaigns,

this year as every year.

Some of us, on several.

[upaloopa]

2. I don't get how this board could have made any

difference in the election.
If people don't give a shit this board isn't going to reach them.
My wife who votes but has nothing else political on her mind all year hasn't a clue about how things went yesterday and probably never will.

[mahina]

8. For myself, without DU I wouldn't have known about how badly the R plan has hurt Kansas.

I wish I had shared that information more broadly. If people knew the outcome of the winger's strategy, I think it would have reduced their turnout.

[upaloopa]

12. We need a reality show that points out how bad

thinks will get with repuke control then maybe we can reach them

[mahina]

15. I see DU's utility as a data aggregator, and an info and meme hub.

Did you see the graphic that not voting isn't rebellion, it's surrender?

I did.

So did my 500 closest personal friends.

Wouldn't have seen it without DU.

Anyway we're both here, so no point in me arguing with you that the site is worthwhile!

[CBGLuthier]

3. Well, we could start by not thinking anything we do or did can change america that much.

I mean really, it is time for DU to get over itself. We are not the center of the universe in relation to america or even democrats. More and more all DU does is call people they disagree with ugly names. After 13 plus years of it I think the whole place is past its sell date and starting to stink up the internet.

If you really want to make a difference try to understand why other people do not think the way you do. get up from your computers and talk to people and quit with all the fucking childish name calling. Calling people you disagree with "stupid" and making fun of everyone's names is just a useless exercise.

[840high]

4. Good post.

[frazzled]

9. +1

[mahina]

10. It has the potential to just be that, true. Also has the potential to do a lot more good.

Kind of like each of us individually.

As I write to you, I'm listening to this youtube vid, testimony on voter machine fraud by a computer programmer, under oath.

#t=366

To me, the utility of DU is evident, but then I've been here since Bush II's first inauguration. Lurked a bit. I find it useful. Post count doesn't tell the whole tale.

I agree completely with your points about understanding others and name calling.

[Autumn]

5. I blame Manny and Will Pitt. We must stop them from posting.

Their posts made everyone under 30 stay home.

Seriously all the sensible people say DU has no relevance and we are nothing like Democrats in real life so I say we post more cat pictures. Just my opinion.

[rwheeler31]

6. We need to do a better job of following local politics and exposing corruption.

[mahina]

11. Totally agree.

As I was told by someone here in state government, look at the contracts.

How? I asked. But that's where most of the corruption hides.

[world wide wally]

13. If the people at DU had actually run the campaigns, we probably would have won them

Prople here keep telling our candidates to show some backbone. Don't campaign like a Republican Lite. Point out what Republicans have done or tried to do. Show charts. Draw pictures!

But the wisdom of DWS and the DNC tells them " oh, just be nice to Republicans and agree with them about the President as much as you can.

Dems should pay attention to Karl Turdshit Rove a little. Dems seem to think they need to get 100% of the vote, so they count on their base plus appealing to as many Republicans as possible, including the NRA and Teabaggers who will NEVER vote for them anyway. Karl Rove is wise enough to know that it only takes 50% plus one vote to win an election.

[shenmue]

14. No.

The real problem is that half the people here, especially "youth," are libertarians, not Democrats.

They need to get out.