Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Several posts about creating a new website, so I thought I'd take a poll. [View all]2banon
(7,321 posts)yes I do want a safe haven to speak freely without fear.
I've been over to JPR, but find their site too difficult to navigate easily and the color scheme makes it difficult for me to read no matter the settings, as I have vision issues. If it was formatted like DU it would be so much better for me to function as user, and I might be a more frequent user.
But functionality issues aside, I was once a member of a site (now apparently defunct) that was "progressive independents". which was started up way back around 2004 (ish) by former DU members who were tombstoned here.
I became involved with site in it's early days, and we had some outstanding discussions, intellectually and philosophically very astute and erudite thinkers and writers.
But eventually I found myself coming away from those discussions depressed and dispirited on having fears and awareness of dire socio-economic and geo-political conditions confirmed with even more doomsday scenarios.
I just had to walk away for my own personal mental health and well being. Like I have to do here on DU for other reasons, i.e. lack of intellectual honesty, awareness etc.
I would like to participate on a site which "shared progressive thought", I'm just not sure which option to choose on the list.
To be clear, Yes... I would.
Hopefully designed similarly to this one in terms of format and in terms of easy user functionality with 'visuals' for those of us with deteriorating vision issues kept in mind.