DU has moved you more...

[Truthiness Inspector]

[CraftyGal]

1. Has got me asking questions

and looking at US polits in a very different way. In Canada I am a New Democrat and I am proud of that, although I now look at all the parties and what they belive in.

Crafty

[rucky]

2. It moved me back to the left.

I started shifting a bit with Clinton, and bought into the anti-gore hatefest back in 2000.

I don't know if it's DU or Bush that pulled me back. Probably a bit of both.

[Swamp Rat]

3. up n/t

[donheld]

4. I haven't moved one way or the other

I think DU has made me more comfortable being right where I am.

[silverweb]

5. No real change in position.

However, DU has informed those positions more thoroughly and made me more articulate about them.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Other.

It really depends on the subject.

[Truthiness Inspector]

8. Very good point, and one I omitted. n/t

[idgiehkt]

7. no change

has only changed my opinion about the internet.

[madrchsod]

9. to make sure i get the facts right

and form a more coherent arguement

[IChing]

10. Truth, no matter how painful, has a liberal bias.

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. In studying the history of the human mind
one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening
of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness.

Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!"......Karl Jung

This government made me reexamine my consciousness
DU is a harbor were I can express myself.

[orleans]

11. who remembers? i suspect i was pissed when i got here. n/t

[Raine]

12. More to the middle

I used to be more liberal but some here are so extreme that it really got me thinking and leaning more centrist.

[IChing]

13. Yes Al Gore is a centralist........

what does that mean?

[Quantess]

14. It has affirmed my righteous hatred of the Bush Administration!

I love my kindred spirits.

[madokie]

15. just reinforces what is/was already there

A hell of a lot more informed now though, knowledge is bliss

[last_texas_dem]

16. I've stayed about the same

I've really been in the same place politically since about my mid-teens. I've moved around a little on several issues as I've learned more, but my general political views haven't had any radical transformation.

DU has been great in helping me find information about subjects that are important to me, though. Perhaps its most important influence on me has been making me feel less of a need to hide my political views. Simply having access to a place where so many people feel similarly and aren't holding back their beliefs is very reassuring at times.

[Kokonoe]

17. Wow 15% to the right.

All I can say is, keep coming back,so you can improve your love for dick and W. Tell me what you take for those awful headaches every morning, I need to know.

[Kokonoe]

18. At least we now know 1/2 of all bush supporters read DU.

[blm]

19. I used to be a lefty who tolerated centrism. DU didn't change me, Bill Clinton's book did

because it showed he was more concerned with protecting the secrecy and privilege of Poppy Bush and his cronies than he was with respecting the American CITIZENS' need to be informed about the crimes of office being committed in their name and the need for presidents to be held ACCOUNTABLE for those crimes of office.

Instead Poppy was protected and WE got Bush2, 9-11 and this Iraq war. Thanks Bill.

http://consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html

[Gabi Hayes]

21. amen....can you imagine if we had some politicians in the US who took

the same stance against global corporatism that, HORRORS, Chavez did/is doing?

it never ceases to amaze me the number of clairvoyants here that LOATHE the same characteristics in Chavez they would support in politicians in the US.

and you know what I mean by clairvoyants

[blm]

23. Ironic, eh?

I say open the books, share the truth and we'll KNOW exactly what to do as a country, and we won't have to be spun into anything.

[Breeze54]

20. I'm still a left liberal but possibly more radical now!

:P

[LWolf]

22. My positions aren't any different. What has changed

is my opinion of the Democratic Party. I liked the party better before DU.

I lost some respect when I saw how many are willing to condone whatever the party, and party leaders, do, regardless of whether they are working for democratic principles, for social and economic justice, or not.