I have an Examiner piece up today on 'The Netroots and the business of American politics'.
I ask a simple question:
Will the rise of the Internet simply bring us a new clique of political consultants, or transform politics by opening it to the wider citizenry?I'd love to see an Internet-based politics that really opened the doors ... and as a nation, we'd be better off if it came to be. Do Bowers and Kos represent that politics? How will we know?
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Steven Dutch's "Laws" pretty much sum why the Netroots are not going to bring about the Transnational Progressive Millenium...
"Eternal vigilance is not the price of liberty. It’s the price of everything."
"There is no perfect system."
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/dutchrules.htm
Of course, Kos et al. don't think those weary caveats apply to them; they're different!
But they will learn. Or, at least, we will...
Have you heard about Unity08?
I'm not that aware of the "Robert Capra" oeuvre; wasn't he the guy who took that famous photo during the Spanish Civil War? Doesn't look like Jimmy Stewart to me....
d'ooooh!!
And I know Robert Capra's work, too...can I try again with Frank Capra?
A.L.
“When it comes to blogging, you can’t do your best work on a dial-up modem in a studio apartment, [with] a 10-year-old computer chair and a five-year-old cell phone. If you want to keep the best and most effective progressive activists in the field of activism rather than the private sector, don’t tell them they need to live like monks.”
The bigger the gap between the best that can be done with such minimal resources and the best that can be done with ideal resources, the worse the prospects are that the people's revolution will be blogged.
#4 from Armed Liberal: "d'ooooh!!
And I know Robert Capra's work, too...can I try again with Frank Capra?
A.L."
No, you can't try again. You must never admit error, because this will detract from your credibility and be used against you if you are in the running for a big money, career-enhancing job as a political blogger. ;)
Did you see that today 3/6 you tube has provided an open forum for the political candidates? Not sure if it's only presidential, but it's free and unhinged form campaign spending limits. It should provide for more than an entertaining time.