Democratic Underground

DemocraticUndergroud.com is a community of Democratic party supporters who feel that the internet already has enough sites that host messages of hate, disingenuous argumentation, smears, trolling, and/or outright lies. Therefore, all anti-Democratic and anti-liberal trolling is banned, regardless of whether that hate comes from the far right or the far left. Most of the reviews here reflect the anger and frustration that individual trolls have at the DU refusing to host their polemics. Within those modest guidelines, the DU has a lively discussion of analysis, news of the day, etc. There are disagreements, most which get resolved amicably. The vast majority of regular Democrats are perfectly comfortable there; moderation is considerably lighter than you find on most political subreddits.

I was a long time member of DU many years ago. But I wanted to see the site discuss fairly the new Democratic candidates. They constantly dismissed any candidates who did not agree with current policy of Democratic leaders. In other words, they did not want any challengers to incumbent Democrats. I was banned for life when I suggested that Hillary Clinton was not our best choice for President in the Democratic Primary. It seems DU is run by the DNC rather than the rank and file Democrat. The Party made a number of dismissals that would have changed our world today if the Party was openly receptive to alternate popular ideas. These dismissals include Ralph Nader (originally a Democrat), Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, and Bernie Sanders.