You know it is never a good thing to realize you’ve failed in your own standards. But when you do, you had better get off you ass and fix it toot sweet.
Which is why I need to say a big fat thank you to the person who gave me my lifetime subscription to Daily Kos. It was wholly unexpected and utter appreciated.
I wrote a post about why people should subscribe, but that is separate from this. If you have the means to subscribe and you value this place, then it is pretty much a no-brainer.
But I, like many here, don’t have the means yet really want to support the health and expansion of this site and the community that has grown up around it.
It is a strange place to be in, because I get the benefits of that support without the cost. Daily Kos is a place that has more value than I care to really think about to me. There is not a single day that I am not on here reading and writing.
I have, frankly, used it to my own gain in promoting my cook book that grew out the long series I’ve been writing on Sunday’s. Sure lots of folks asked me to write the book and to be sure to let them know about it, but I got the benefit of the site and the community at no cost.
I’ve seen some folks who are turned off by the whole subscription drive and the Thank You diaries that have been written about the subscriptions given. All I can say is that if you don’t want to join, well no one will make you.
But for those of us that do value the community and the work that Daily Kos does, then it is important and does make a difference. There has been a lot of and will probably always be a lot of fractiousness here. How could there be anything else?
Still, isn’t it the fractiousness of the site really a major part of the value of it all? If we all agreed all the time, even on an issue like getting a subscription, then we would not be sharpening our ideas and our skills. Having it be a fairly rough and tumble place is good training for activism, which at its core, to me, is the purpose of Daily Kos in the first place.
So, join, don’t join, it is all one to me, but I do have to say to my anonymous benefactor thank you. And thank you to all the other great folks that have put their money where their community is.
Finally thanks to all of you, the folks who’ve read my work, who’ve argued against my point of view, who’ve pointed out my typo’s, who’ve been there with thoughts and support at some of the darkest times in my life thus far. If I have been less than effusive in saying thanks, that is a failure that I will have to live with and nothing at all to do with you.
Now that I’ve rambled for a few hundred words let me just say it flat out:
Thank you Daily Kos Community. You mean more to me than I can or have said.
The floor is yours.