Some of you may have noticed that a certain recent thread has been embroiled in the endless discussion of the primary and the general, and 11-dimensional chess, and progressive A-list bloggers and so on and so forth. It would be pointless not to acknowledge at the outset that that isn't the initial motivation for writing this post. And some of my critics are ultimately correct in pointing out after a certain point, it's not productive. So let's abstract away from it for a moment.

So, it's also been suggested that I "be the change I want to see" or whatever. Well, the change I want to see is, actually, more serious discussions of what I'll call "process issues". Leaving aside the fact that I have done this before, I'm going to ask the question again: can anyone spell out the process by which you see leftist political blogging parlay itself into elected power and policy?