Reply #72: Skinner, Gracious, Considerate and Honest. [View All]

[David Zephyr]

Thank you, first of all, for resisting the call to "purge" people from the site and the camaraderie that they have been part of.

Like you, I anticipated this day would arrive here when you and EarlG would be confronted with the challenge you now face: to balance supporting a nominee of the Party and still permitting free-wheeling discourse amongst the kindred spirits assembled here at this "soul mission".

Please consider what I wrote on February 7th here at your site knowing this day would arrive:

"It is my hope that the DemocraticUnderground.Com will remain the very same home it has been for over three years to Democrats, Greens, Socialists and Leftists from all over the world---many of whom can’t even vote here. Don't we need them, too? And while it is understandable that there would be a desire to defeat Bush, I would suggest that to stifle any and all criticism of the Party’s nominee would render the Democratic Underground to little more than a Basement extension below the Democratic National Committee’s House, hardly an underground. More an Upstairs / Downstairs arrangement.

"And herein is the thankless challenge facing poor EarlG and Skinner and the Administration, to somehow hold it all together, to stop the precious egg from falling from off the wall. And we can help them as individuals by re-evaluating many of the irrational expectations we may have from other DU’ers. Finally, it is my most sincere hope that many of the banned DU’ers may be allowed to come back as well."

And, I do ask you once again to please consider an amnesty to many who were banned here for, shall we say, being perhaps too loyal to one of our Party's very own candidates. Certainly, the disruptors and freepers would not be included in this, but there are some good-hearted folks who could be welcomed back.

Warmest Regards,

David Zephyr

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