UPDATE #3, Sunday: I just wrote a followup diary which, I hope, is more focused. It's titled: DailyKos Mission: Battle of Progressives vs Pragmatists )
(UPDATE: #1. Comments helped clarify that I'm speaking really of the content-flow on the Recommended Diary list, vs the Diary List at large. It's a huge difference, and I should have said so, and made that clear. thanks for the comments. #2 Ooops. I also mis-spelled astroturf, and besides, barb didn't like it or think it appropriate, so I removed it)
This is a simple commentary, from a mile high view. In the early days of DailyKos, participants were more than likely to be part of Howard Dean's new grassroots progressive movement than staffers and volunteers from the DLC machinery.
That has changed. Many things change. Change is okay. But it's often useful to simply note that change, as a frame of reference for where we're heading.
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