Hooray for all of you who have written here since 2002
In May 2002, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas dashed off the seven sentences that birthed the Daily Kos we know and love today, there wasn’t a computer, much less internet, to be found in the home I shared with two fellow bartenders in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. We were all in a period of arrested development: At 22 years old, we were still reeling from 9/11 eight months before. The only war we’d experienced in our lifetimes lasted just six months, when we were too young to understand the repercussions or realities of the actions of the first Bush presidency, including the appointment of Justice Clarence Thomas.
Two years earlier, the first presidential election in which we could vote was decided by the Supreme Court and we still were too young to understand the repercussions of a second Bush in the White House, even though none of us voted for him. Dubya would later place John Roberts and Samuel Alito on the court that handed him his first term, leading to today’s precarity. It’s one that, I think, our younger selves couldn’t, and didn’t imagine.
It was, as they say, a different time. Yet so many of you were here, fighting to stop today’s nightmare before it became reality. And without those of you who were here then, Daily Kos wouldn’t be the essential, multi-faceted progressive hub that it is today—one that’s given my work such meaning over the nearly five years since I joined the Staff.
So even in the face of Alito’s leaked opinion and a far-right activist SCOTUS that has only gotten worse, we must celebrate you, dear Community. You are simply the best.
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