Introduce Yourself: dkmich/caucus99percent

Hello Everyone!

This is my very first post on Steemit.   Like most of you, I am fed up with the corporate owned state censorship or social media and looking for a new home where free speech and independent thought are free to roam.    

My migration started when I followed Howard Dean to DailyKos in 2004.   DailyKos  used to be a left leaning activist blog, until one day Bubba invited all the young bloggers to lunch at his Harlem  digs.   After that, it slowly and steadily rotted into a propaganda hell.   Party loyalty to the dear leader and the talking point of the day became mandatory.  Failure to salute the party line resulted in Kos loosing his hounds of hell to overwhelm you and throw donuts at you until you ended up in the timeout corner like a five year old.  If you amassed enough time outs, the result was a bojo, a banning from the site.   The Bernie vs Hillary primary at dailykos was particularly vicious, more vicious than any previous primary at dailykos.  Bernie supporters who failed to endorse Hillary or omg criticize her or her campaign were banned en mass, otherwise known as the Ides of March at DailyKos.   Those Bernie supporters that weren't banned had been planning a mass exodus of their own.      We created our own blog, Caucus99Percent,  and we also publish it on Facebook, and Twitter.   

I have personal social media accounts like this one on Steemit, but I am also  a moderator for  c99  and the creator of and admin for their Facebook page.   From time to time, I plan to cross post original articles from c99, and I hope you will enjoy them as much as we do.    C99 is a labor of love, and rather than seeking advertisements, party or corporate sponsorships, it is funded by the community itself. C99 is not a partisan site. It does not endorse any candidate or ask that anyone support a candidate or party.

Like the Occupy movement from which the name of this site derives (many of the early members of the site were active members and supporters of Occupy), we are open to people with all kinds of different ideas about how to make the world a better place. The folks already here represent a broad range of left-leaning to far-left orientations.To learn more about us or join our online community, click here.

Looking forward to new journeys and new friends.