Slow day so I'm just going to ask a someone off topic, maybe poorly worded, maybe indelicate question.
Most or all of us come from Daily Kos, I think. Would you say that the level of ... engagement with reality that the average poster there has is similar to the average Democratic voter?
I know that's a poorly worded question but I'm trying to determine how deep in a bubble I am, I guess.
Slow day so I'm just going to ask a someone off topic, maybe poorly worded, maybe indelicate question.
Most or all of us come from Daily Kos, I think. Would you say that the level of ... engagement with reality that the average poster there has is similar to the average Democratic voter?
I know that's a poorly worded question but I'm trying to determine how deep in a bubble I am, I guess.
It's full of people who genuinely think that if the Democratic Party nominated Ilhan Omar types in every state and in every district, we would win EVERYTHING. Talk about living in a bubble.
"Progressives" had lower expectations in those days. Back then, bashing Bush the Younger and opposing the War in Iraq from the very beginning made you "one of them."
I read the DailyKos for DK Elections and for specific writers. These included Mark Sumner, Denise Oliver Velez, Timothy Lange (aka Meteor Blades), Charles Gaba (Brainwrap). Plus a number of other members of the community.
Also, the DailyKos’ coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian war was excellent!
I cannot say much about the average DK poster, because that was not the focus of my reading. But do the excellent above-mentioned writers represent average Democrats? I very much doubt that.
PS. Tigercourse, to answer your last question: I expect you are deep in the bubble of the educated and well-informed. :)
I think Meteor Blades and Egberto Willes are among the best writers on DK.
However, I will admit Daily Kos with as important of an influence it has on the Democratic Party and Democratic activism can be particularly loaded by rant diaries that don’t really offer any productive outlet for readers. This particularly applied to these unusually irritating anti-Bill Maher diaries during Biden’s term as POTUS which offered no discourse of disagreement with Maher and are about purity towards him as “turning more conservative” which is absolute BS considering he’s railed against tricked down economics for many years (not to mention being one of Obama and Pelosi’s biggest cheerleaders).
I really don’t care if anyone disagrees with Maher and others. That’s fair. We can’t expect all liberals, specially Maher, to be in agreement with us all the time but it’s not exactly wise to make the discussion about purity (let the Green Party do that since they don’t know how to win elections). However, what’s important is productive civil discourse.
Slow day so I'm just going to ask a someone off topic, maybe poorly worded, maybe indelicate question.
Most or all of us come from Daily Kos, I think. Would you say that the level of ... engagement with reality that the average poster there has is similar to the average Democratic voter?
I know that's a poorly worded question but I'm trying to determine how deep in a bubble I am, I guess.
No, definitely not. DK Mainpage is not how the average Democrat thinks at all. There’s a reason I avoided it like the plague
It's full of people who genuinely think that if the Democratic Party nominated Ilhan Omar types in every state and in every district, we would win EVERYTHING. Talk about living in a bubble.
I don't recall it being like that when I first joined in 2005.
"Progressives" had lower expectations in those days. Back then, bashing Bush the Younger and opposing the War in Iraq from the very beginning made you "one of them."
I read the DailyKos for DK Elections and for specific writers. These included Mark Sumner, Denise Oliver Velez, Timothy Lange (aka Meteor Blades), Charles Gaba (Brainwrap). Plus a number of other members of the community.
Also, the DailyKos’ coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian war was excellent!
I cannot say much about the average DK poster, because that was not the focus of my reading. But do the excellent above-mentioned writers represent average Democrats? I very much doubt that.
PS. Tigercourse, to answer your last question: I expect you are deep in the bubble of the educated and well-informed. :)
I think Meteor Blades and Egberto Willes are among the best writers on DK.
However, I will admit Daily Kos with as important of an influence it has on the Democratic Party and Democratic activism can be particularly loaded by rant diaries that don’t really offer any productive outlet for readers. This particularly applied to these unusually irritating anti-Bill Maher diaries during Biden’s term as POTUS which offered no discourse of disagreement with Maher and are about purity towards him as “turning more conservative” which is absolute BS considering he’s railed against tricked down economics for many years (not to mention being one of Obama and Pelosi’s biggest cheerleaders).
I really don’t care if anyone disagrees with Maher and others. That’s fair. We can’t expect all liberals, specially Maher, to be in agreement with us all the time but it’s not exactly wise to make the discussion about purity (let the Green Party do that since they don’t know how to win elections). However, what’s important is productive civil discourse.