The unexamined life is not worth living – Socrates via Plato.
One of the really cool things about Daily Kos, and political blogging communities in general, is that there is a diversity of opinion amongst the diarists and commentators. The range for Kos runs from libertarians to work within the system anarchists. The range of support for candidates runs from Ron Paul (at least some of his ideas) to Blue Dog Democrats to DLCers (in name and actions) to liberals to true progressives and beyond. The range of political ideas run from small government coservatism/liberalism to nanny state conservatism/moderatism/liberalism to progressivism to lighter flavors of socialism. We even get a good dose of Israeli-Palestinian bickering and Hugo Chavez love/hate. It's a really good thing to see and read, for the most part.