Remember Hunter and that other guy, help me out, I can't think of his name right now, who used to post here regularly spewing rage, and humor and entertaining language.
They are the ones who attracted me to dkos in the first place years ago. I've been trying to figure out what has changed around here lately. It is the ranting--real, actual pissed off human beings. Now it all seems so antiseptic, so 501(c)3. Everyone's got something clever to say and the world class ranters have left the stage.
What should we make of THIS? This Atlantic article is about how, gosh, the recession is over (IS over???) and what with all the unemployment still on the books, predictions of good times coming are getting kind of awkward. Idk but WHAT kind of a happy post-recession scenario has so many people out of work? Let me put that another way--so many people without an income. Does that help it sink in?
This is a PROBLEM. And not only are think tank commenter types speaking in moderated David Brooksy tones, but even our own President,
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