"I need to feel important"
"I need to feel that I make a difference"
"I need to imagine that I'm changing the world"
All of us have to ask ourselves if we are really affecting our future. You cannot come to this website and be OK with the direction America is traveling upon. Start using the twitter hashtag #progressive. Nobody can steal it from you. No one can rob it from you. But the world is collapsing. And all of us are coming to DK like the societies of 1984 and finding refuge in a place that has had no affect on the future. DK was neutered and rendered impotent and all of its participants sold out to corporate buyers.
That is who we are. People given to corporate buyers for a pittance.
Ask yourself. Do your really believe Markos cares?
Do you really feel this website has been effective in changing American politics the last year?
We, DK, are ineffective at creating change. So let us examine ourselves and change the future by giving up one 'central' website. Forever we must label ourselves as #progressive. Do you think Markos cares? He's never here. He doesn't care whether you assault him, or others, because diarists mark up people or not. We all know this website is dying because it only appeals to the old.
I will tell you this. I have seven different forms of revenue creation. I am not in need of anything. But here's what's killing me. America has not improve because of Democrats. America is not better today than it was when DK was created. We are all sold out for a pittance.
Is this the America you wanted? Where progressives met together to proudly proclaim we should demand good pay from our corporate overlords? Is this an America where you feel proud to say you are a worker? Where the world is driving toward the bright future envisioned by visionaries of our past?
This is a shitty version of the future. America sold out. And so did we. We are bastards. Jesus Christ died for his convictions but we're more worried about whether he was cool with gays or not, instead of dying for the sake of giving equal rights to everyone.
We are all distracted. DK is a distraction. The unverse, God, whatever helps us find a way to not be distracted.