I was doing some post-Donna is Victorious! reading something and I’ll paraphrase:

It’s sort of like an alcoholic. He may be losing his wife, job, and he may have liver cancer; but until he deals with his alcoholism meaningfully, he won’t be able to truly fix any of his other problems. So it is with progressives, and our “core” issues like ending the war or bringing economic justice to a rapidly expanding underclass; and The Problem of the campaign finance system.

Unless and until we find a way to “own” candidates and elected officials, we’re all just whistling Dixie. If it’s not going to be Revolution, then it has to be by doing to unpopular things inside the system. Raising money (ick), volunteering (snore), and worst of all, pissing off some of our “friends.” I won’t argue which is the best, because I see no reason why some us can’t work on the “50 State” strategy while other work on the “safe district” or “open seat” approaches.  Read more