I know that we have lost some stellar people to illness and death. It's inevitable but still...................it leaves fewer voices.
I really don’t recall many liberals in the early years; there were several libertarians, but they were radical conservatives, like Rob Noel for example, and Dausman, who I believe is still listed, but never shows up.
Most of the zots simply got to be too self-important, and tried to run the show, but there were some severe bad apples like Eschoir, a queer lawyer that sang in a choir, and had some kind of stalking fixation on Connie Hair.
I still recall a link to a couple of DU type sites back in 2003-2004; calling on an effort for the libtard communists to infiltrate Conservative sites... especially FR..