How is MyDD supposed to make any money if we spend time in the real world?

....so I can pretend that I'm in control of my life :D

I regret nothing concerning my multiple arrests  for non-violent opposition.
One is here..
..and yes I wore my colors in the pic
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Jealous and admiring.  Maybe I should wear a shirt, next time, that says "Too chicken to arrest me?  Cluck, cluck, cluck!"

I would love to rec your diary, but I can't.  There are too many meta-diaries like this making the rec list.  Thank you for saying something I agree with wholeheartedly.

this diary raises an interesting point about the netroots.  

but i suspect that what you omitted to consider is that some people have personal, familial and work responsibilities thus amking it impossible to involve themselves on such a time-consuming level.

I'm personally loving this: As a longstanding community organizer, journalist and foot soldier on the left (with the scar tissue upon scar tissue and a string of hard-won victories to prove it) my frustration with the ineffectiveness of so many that consider themselves also of the left in the United States in recent years has boiled over. I am so sick of having to be lumped in with those masturbatory practitioners of bad performance art that they call activism. Really. I had to leave the country 11 years ago to find better change-agents worth reporting on.

And suddenly, along comes a political candidate inside the United States - a category of person from the last place I expected this to come from - giving a nationwide teach-in and lesson-in-civics about how to effectively organize for change.

Here's an unspoken little secret: The success of Obama's campaign challenges those that still subscribe to broken patterns of activism - whether the zombie-like attempt to repeat the completely coopted street protest tactics of 1968 (or of 1999) or the academic purity troll approach that complains without even attempting to organize real people - and is driving various of them absolutely crazy with envy.

To every fellow and sister of the left that, practically on automatic pilot, bemoans that Obama has taken center stage when it comes to organizing for change in the United States (I've heard your whispers about "We can't wait to see Al disillusioned in 2009! That'll show him!" as if you're actually hoping for bad news), I say: Show me the better plan.

Show me how you are effectively organizing real people. Show me how you stopped the Clinton machine in the 1990s from auctioning off the Democratic Party (oops, too late!). Show me how you stopped the war in Iraq. Show me a single political battle you that have won with your tired old tactics and "framing" of "issues." Then I'll take your complaining more seriously.

The skinny kid with the big ears that don't look like the men on dollar bills is doing, right here, right now, what none of you complaining about him have accomplished: He's built a nationwide grassroots organization - and trained thousands in the nuts and bolts of how to do it on the local level - in a way that facilitates simultaneous horizontal organization and that can sustain the kind of pluralism that says: hey, you don't like the way I'm doing it? Do it yourself then!

This site sometimes seems to me like it's crossed over into the "post-rational" universe Rachel Maddow warned about.

It's truly surreal to see the self-importance and ego of so many armchair pundits who've supposedly spent a lifetime working on political campaigns, to whom everything is all so clear, and yet who have little better to do than spend hours and hours bashing their keyboards on a third-tier website. I'm also a bit amazed at the utter brashness of those who seem to have cowed the admins and membership into accepting their presence on a Democratic site despite the fact that they're posting here in bad faith, obsessively attacking Democrats and overtly supporting the republican candidate.

I don't consider myself the most politically astute or savvy person around, but I can usually spot sharp minds and good intentions, and there are fewer of both here than there should be. Too much of what goes on is juvenile playground politics for lulz conducted by internet addicts.

On the other hand, maybe I can be encouraged by the lack of quality contributions: it means the really talented people are out in the real world making a difference instead of sitting here griping and taunting each other.

My late night rant was based on a basic frustration.
There is no one here who could not provide 4 hours a week to SOME campaign.
One of the reasons we lose is so many are simply not active..
I am putting in only about 4-6 hours a week in the evening for Obama.
I am giving 3-4 hours each Saturday to a candidate for CO State Senate that I won't be able to vote for. Why?
Because this election year is a tipping point in so many ways.

I am involved with Alliance for a Real Democracy.
You will see many of our political actions such as
"Funk the War" "Tent State" IVAW ..Code Pink and many more during the Convention here in Denver.

I do not have to go all out for 365 days..
Wouldn't be able to do that.
However,; I will do all I can for a lousy 90+ days. There are reasons but no excuses for any
political minded person to limit ourselves either cheering or booing while sitting on the sidelines..

Something soft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9qWpa2r Ig

Something a little harder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dr05tXkt So