The Way Forward: About this forum

Statement of Purpose

Discuss the future of the Democratic Party and the left, strategies to rebuild the party's influence and reach, and tactics to retake political power from the right. REMINDER: Forum Hosts are only responsible for locking off-topic discussions in this forum, they are not responsible for locking discussions which may violate the DU rules. Please be aware that while the rules prohibit "bashing" of Democratic public figures, the rules also allow for constructive criticism. Between those two positions lies a large grey area, and if you want to avoid getting posts removed by Jury in this forum, remember that not everyone on DU may have the same appreciation or dislike for the same politicians that you do. If you treat your fellow DU members with respect and try to post in a civil manner, you will rarely have any problems. Posting derogatory nicknames for center-to-left politicians, groups of DU members, or individual DU members, will increase your chances of getting a post removed.

Statistics and Information

Type (Main Forum or Topic Forum): Main Forum
Relevance (Political or Non-political): Political
Status (Active or Retired): Active
Category: N/A
Number of posts, 30 days: 1,462
Number of posts, All time: 1,462
Number of subscribers:
Number of people trashing: 2

Hosts

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Current Main Forum Hosts, in the order they were added:

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1 JudyM 86

2 GP6971 67

3 Yonnie3 58

4 Emile 39

5 Omaha Steve 19

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Host Powers

Main Forum Hosts have the following abilities in their assigned forums:

Lock thread (Reason: Violates this forum's Statement of Purpose)
Locks a thread when the OP (Original Post -- the first post of a thread) is not on-topic for the forum. An automatic notification will be dropped into the OP explaining why the thread was locked. The thread can only be unlocked by the Host who locked it.

Blocked Members

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