Let's look at some political facts:
- The Democrats can't seem to win elections
- The Democrats don't know how to counter the conservative agenda
- The Democrats have offered no vision to the American people
- The Democrats splinter and defect when corporate pressure gets heavy
- Playing wonky tactics has had only marginal success
- Appealing to core values seems to be the best winning strategy
- Equality is a core value
- Many, if not most, women see a definite lack of equality
- Mocking or dismissing women's concerns as not being related to core issues would seem to derail this core value approach
- The women's vote is already split between Dems and Repubs
- How is it that rejecting women as special interests is a winning strategy for Dems?
Let's look at some media/communications facts:
- Nobody stays on top forever
- The audience is fickle
- Kids smell bullshit
- Popular sites win visitors by offering what the visitors need or desire
- Popular sites that stop offering those things will see their popularity drop
- The people will go where they're appreciated
- There's always another website
- Smart mobs rule the net
- Push people away ... and they go away
Finally, some of my own truths:
- I don't give a fig about the pie ad
- I was shocked by Kos's apparently misogynist attitudes
- As far as I'm concerned, he has every right to have those attitudes
- He has every right to not apologize and tell all of us who've asked for one to, in essence, fuck off
- I don't need to make any big declarations about leaving or staying
- DKos has been an excellent community in some ways, mainly for the quality of dialog
- It's still pretty much a boys' club
- One incident can paint an unfair picture, but time will tell if the patriarchal ethos of DailyKos will improve or not
- When it comes to how I spend my time, I look for relevance to my life
- DailyKos seems to have less relevance now
- My privacy, my body, my self-determination are not fringe causes
- If men don't agree, they can go fly a kite
- The political situation in this country needs to change
- Selling out to kinder, gentler misogynists and patriarchs does not strike me as a path towards women's equality
- Kos has made his attitudes quite clear, as is his right
- They don't float my boat
- If I get banned for this, I would be surprised, but it would be very revealing
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