This will be short, but I'll give my meta view here.
I like and value many of the posters who are caught up in trying to solve the issue of Dkos roil. It's a shame, but what is happening here?
Simple. It one of the most difficult things to handle in the world: success. Or rather, failure. Of the other side.
The Republican Party has become a sick joke, what with losing an illegal war, opening the borders, spending out the Treasury, rigging laws to benefit the Upper Class at the expense of the Working Classes, corrupting Congress, fumbling on the recovery of Katrina, justifying torture and illegal wiretapping, and finally the spectacle of an elected President of the United States ignoring the will of the nation with the inane notion he is, "The Decider."
When a Party becomes as riven with deceit as has the Conservative Republican movement, then there will be a mass exodus of persons from said movement. And when that happens, thinking people of all stripes will then attempt to find other outlets and avenues of change.
Enter, DailyKos, the largest liberal activist political blog. This site is experiencing the entry of minions from the failed "conservative" side of the aisle. I say, welcome!
This new influx will tend to change the discourse here. Also, since the Conservatives have decided to make their fellow citizens "the enemy" and declare cultural war against us, it is not surprising to find more aggression and rancor present on the site.
I would think this is an opportunity to forge new bonds, and to practice the reconciliation that true change demands of our nation. And I would hope that people here realize and remember that liberal values and thought (which are simply for liberty and individual rights) gain their power from "attractive" ideals and commonwealth, not the "negative" force-based methods of the declining conservative movement.
Oh, yeah, and welcome to the newbies! And Happy New Year to us all!