I am going to say goodbye to you all here at Democratic Underground.

[hang a left]

I have agonized, screamed, cried, wailed, and shook my head in disbelief, as well as shaking my fist at God over the past 3 years here.

I have read and researched and found out stuff I wish I didn't know because it has changed me forever.

I can't take another 4 years of this. I know * didn't win. With 30% of voters voting on Diebold or some other form of BBV our democracy has been subverted. The people no longer have a say in the forming of the government. America has died. I shudder to think what the next 4 years will bring. I will bare it alone, without my friends here. It has been too painful and I just can't participate any longer knowing that it doesn't matter.

Thank you all for your posts, your wealth of information and for teaching me truth. You will never be forgotten.

[Name removed]

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[eleonora]

2. you need to get a grip on yourself

or you'll never survive the next 4 years, with or without DU

[demnan]

3. You won't stay away long

You'll be back. We all need DU even more now. And we need to keep up the fight.

[derbstyron]

4. It only stops to matter when you GIVE up

The fight to take back this country HAS JUST BEGUN! :)
We will win because we have to!!!

[blondeatlast]

5. Don't give up; there is a new civil rights movement looming.

Even if the do end up winning, we must stay organized and vigilant. We must let Bush, Congress, SCOTUS, and the media know they are being carefully monitored and will be held accountable for their lies, cheats, and actions.

Think of what DU has accomplished, take a few days, then return.

I am not about to give up my country, now more than ever.

If you must go, Godspeed. Lord knows I've thought the same thing, but I've built a sort of life here on DU.

Give yourself time, then decide.

[mazzarro]

6. Please rethink your decision to leave

I believe that your agony will be easier to bear if you stay. We can then rely on each other for support to find solutions to what we are likely to face, collectively, in the next four years.

[Bluebear]

7. Divided we REALLY fall

[greyfox]

8. Perhaps had you not shaken your fist at God

we would not be in this mess. Bush has NAUGHT to do with God... he is a faker.

[Flammable Materials]

32. Yeah, God really hates those fist-shakers. n/t

[LisaLynne]

9. I do understand.

And I don't know you, but I have a feeling, you might be back. We all need to recover from this quickly and figure out what we need to do. And then do it.

[Swamp Rat]

10. Well, if you leave you might as well take this gift with you.

Hopefully you'll come back. :hi:

This gift will keep you company during the emergence of the Fourth Reich (I suggest you forego this and stay here at DU):

[M155Y_A1CH]

11. Back to the ignorant masses

Won't your curiosity get the best of you there?
It might be easier but you'll have no idea
what's going on.
You won't be hearing much of the facts
out there, obviously at least a quarter of DU outsiders
bought the spin. Almost half left their heads in the sand
and did not even vote.
Have a good trip! LOL

[chiburb]

12. "I can't take another 4 years of this. "

You don't have to. In 2 years we can take the Senate and the House, if you're feeling up to it by then.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

13. So you're leaving DU why?

Why do it alone when you have others backing you up?

This doesn't make sense to me. I've given up on America but I haven't given up on the people here who are sticking to their guns.

[jpgray]

14. No need for the drama. Other nations have pulled through much worse times

It's an indictment of our progressives not so much that we have allowed Bush another term, but that some of us fold up so easily after having done so.

[Ganja Ninja]

15. So I guess it's see ya next time Bush and the GOP piss you off.

You'll be back you know you can't stay away. Your trapped in the twilight zone that is Dick Cheney's Amerika. Just like the rest of us in this living hell.

[chiburb]

16. Nixon was forced from office in disgrace during his 2nd term...

Too bad you won't be here to celebrate Georgie's exit!

[Atlas Mugged]

18. Nixon...

...didn't have the cult of personality that this fake redneck has. Once prayer is forced in schools it'll include prayers for "Our Illustrious Leader". I'm sure that someone is ghost-writing Bush's "Little Red Book" as we type.

[LionInWinter]

36. Nixon ...

didn't have a solidly republican House & Senate. This bastard ain't goin' nowhere.

[Renew Deal]

17. See you

It's tough right now. I wish you the best.

[hang a left]

19. Thanks everyone.

My heart and soul has went into this website. It is just too heartbreaking.

Iraqgate
Plamegate
Medicaregate
Delaygate
Swiftgate
9-11gate
BBVgate
ad infinitum

It has been a long fight. We fought and we lost. We lost everything. I can't even imagine what the next 4 long years will bring. More of the same and even worse. There is no way we could have waged a fiercer battle. It's over. Fat lady done sung.

[DS1]

20. You used the wrong word for bear

:-)

[short bus president]

24. Is your fascination with "bears"

a freudian kind of hint at repressed sexual desires?

:P

[DS1]

27. Did someone page me?

:D

[short bus president]

37. Heh -

Is THAT what you kids are calling it these days?

:P

[realisticphish]

30. someone send for heyhey!

:)

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[asthmaticeog]

21. Hey, take time off, sure,

but just don't deactivate. I suspect you'll want to come back. I've been there a couple of times myself.

[donheld]

22. As much pain as i'm in

I couldn't dream of leaving DU. Not now.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

23. Liberalnproud, are you OK. I'm worried about you.

[hang a left]

31. I am just disgusted.

I don't believe * really won. So now that it doesn't matter how people vote, "they" decide, what's the use.

[lojasmo]

25. I'm going to canvass my entire district next summer

And the summer after that. Then I'll be ready to mobiize the district for a candidate I can back wholeheartedly in 2008

I can say that if the DLC/DNS shove clinton (or kerry) down my throat next cycle, I'm going to take the general election off.

[redqueen]

26. They WANT us to give up.

This is only the beginning of the fight. I hope once you take some time to grieve, then maybe you can come back more motivated than ever.

[HEyHEY]

28. Someone cyber slap this one and throw a glass of water on her

Straighten out man! THis is when it gets really fun!

[Vogon_Glory]

29. Liberalnproud, Take A Well-earned Sabbatical, Then

Liberalnproud, take a well-earned sabbatical, then consider rejoining the fight.

I fear that voting may well be subverted by crooked voting machines, BUT I remember that people-power revolutions like the ones that happened in Argentina after the Falklands War, the Philippine revolution that ousted Ferdinand Marcos, the Indian voter revolt that tanked Indira Ghandi, as well as the vote that ousted Serbia's Milosevic also faced formidable odds.

The American citizenry may well be that angry about Republican misrule in a few years to get implement something like those over here.

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. Don't leave us now!!! Be the proud part of your user name. Stand

together, or we'll face more of this crap. We need to band together and get our freedoms back. We need to shout out to the "politicians" that we the people don't need them the idiots and oppressors. I stopped having a president in my home yesterday. Try it. It's nice. :hi:

[arwalden]

34. Take All The Time You Need. Come Back When You Feel Better.

I hope to see you soon!

Love, Allen

[no name no slogan]

35. It's still early in the game-- they Repukes have been at it 24+ years

Remember, it took until 1980 for the far-right wing of the Republican party to gain control after the 1964 Goldwater rout.

Since then, they've been organizing, mobilizing and getting the right-wingers to the polls. After 24 years, they've got it down to a science.

Right now, we're where they were at in 1978. We're on the comeback, but we're still not up to speed.

Take some time off, and savor the many small victories we had.

And then, come back swinging.

:thumbsup:

[terrya]

38. FUCK YOU, George W. Bush!!!!!

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you for bringing this shit down in this country. FUCK YOU, George W. Bush, for further dividing this country.

FUCK YOU, George W. Bush, for bringing fear, anger, and helplessness to this country.

liberalnproud, you're right. America as we know it has died this week. The motherfuckers rule.

I'm sorry you're leaving DU, liberalnproud. I understand. God damn it, I hate this. I hate this, I hate this.