I started reading here prior to the 2008 election simply because my son ask to do so. I had been a Republican for over 35 years and he is a Democrat. I took him to Houston to hear Obama speak and then took his advice and signed on to Daily Kos.
I left, for the most part, after the election......
I voted for a man that promised change. I believed him. I thought everyone at this site did too for the most part. I understand that I, nor everyone else, will ever agree 100% with any politician. I also understand that it is not my job, I am not a politician. I also don't understand how to build a bridge, it isn't my job so I have NO WAY of knowing what happens behind closed doors nor do I understand the workings of someone who builds those bridges yet here at Daily Kos so many "knew" what Obama needed to do, they second guessed his decisions and at times his capitulation on issues that were close to our hearts. Some became angry and posted dairies that called Obama and his crew out... and they have that right BUT I stopped checking in on a daily basis when it became a free for all for the bullies who slammed others who did not agree 100% with them. I stopped when people who just simply like to fight would pick on new people who wrote a diary (as they will this one). I stopped when the people who run this site allowed it to become someplace that allowed abuse of it's readers and last but not least? I stopped when I got tired of seeing my President abused because he did not make single issue voters happy. It seems that MANY here do not see what damage they do to the President when they pander to the Republican arguments and perhaps they do so without realizing what they are doing.... but I personally feel that some here like nothing more than the feeling of victory when they "win" a fight at this site. How very small of them and how sad that someone would feel gain from running good voters off a site that should inform them and give them somewhere to go that allows them to learn and connect in ensuring that what happened during the Bush years never happens again.
This site helped pull me from the Republican voter side of the realm and now? I have not a clue what happened to the Daily Kos, and the people here that preformed that change.
Daily Kos has become a site for the Republican trolls to rejoice in. They sneak in and cause problems and laugh all the way to the polls and some here have not a clue.