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This is an article that I've been working on for a while. The original is up at The Daily Kos.
It's Time to Privatize the Democratic Party
In the aftermath of the 2004 election disaster, the Democratic Party seems poised to repeat their tactics of post-2000: quietly concede, support the President, engage the circular firing squad, and wait until six months before the next election. At that point, they'll suddenly start sending dozens of panicky emails begging for donations. They'll blunder, and the media will pounce on anything, real or imagined, and call it a scandal. And the Republican machine will rip through the Democratic slate like a buzzsaw.
It doesn't have to be that way.
It's time to try a new approach: to make the Democratic Party a real, year-round organization that takes action, effective action - privately.
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It's Time to Privatize the Democratic Party
In the aftermath of the 2004 election disaster, the Democratic Party seems poised to repeat their tactics of post-2000: quietly concede, support the President, engage the circular firing squad, and wait until six months before the next election. At that point, they'll suddenly start sending dozens of panicky emails begging for donations. They'll blunder, and the media will pounce on anything, real or imagined, and call it a scandal. And the Republican machine will rip through the Democratic slate like a buzzsaw.
It doesn't have to be that way.
It's time to try a new approach: to make the Democratic Party a real, year-round organization that takes action, effective action - privately.
( Read more... )
