For my 20,000th post I would just like to say, "Thanks DU".
Despite the occasional bouts of internecine bickering, this place has remained a bastion of progressive thought, and a bulwark against the creeping ratfuckery of that gang of criminals, misfits, misogynists, racists, losers, and plain old-fashioned shitheads previously known as the Republican Party.
For 18 years I've found a home here, and while I must be something of a slacker to have taken this long to reach 20K, I've still managed to say most of what I wanted to say, while only being served one granite pizza (and thanks, Skinner, for giving me a second chance, way back when).
Anyway, Happy New Year, DU. Here's to 18 more years (and may at least 17 of them be blessedly Trump-free)!
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Happy new year!! 
Thanks for hanging around all these years.
And, also from that WB Yates poem, I see this in today's politics:
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
Happy New Year! 
your responses will continue to increase you are among like minded people. So refreshing too, thank goodness.
As a recent fellow 20K-er, I know it’s a long slog to reach that number. Well done!
