I read DU regularly. Some of them have the ability to write intelligently. But the majority of them, I have come to think, simply hate America. And many of them are not American, although they do not reveal that fact. You can sometimes see their written language degenerate as they get angry and realize that English is not their first language. These people are not really responding to issues. They are trying to destabilize the US. They take whatever is in the news and development an argument about why it is the US/bush's fault. There is nothing rational about that dialogue. It has nothing to do with real dialogue. It's anonymous undermining of the US. Not all of them are like that. The honest DUers don't seem to realize the degree to which they have been hijacked.