I’m the kind of person who looks forward to the next thing to worry about. (Ask my wife!) I am not alone in this, of course. So while November 2nd is looking to be a good day — not because we will find ourselves at the gates of the fabled city on the hill, but because the mud-slide will have been slowed (not even stopped) –we will still have President Dick Think.
Most of the Dems elected will still be immersed in the same tougher than thou theology. But at least there will be a chance for us. So, what is happening to build on what seems to be this coming moment? Matt Stoller has a good post, and good links over at MyDD.
There’s a myth that the emergence of the conservative movement came because of a small group of scheming billionaires who funded think tanks and publications that created policy and a culture of political activism on the right. One of my pet peeves is how much the left has internalized this myth, and you can see this in discussions of Pete Coors, Richard Mellon Scaife, or Karl Rove. It’s particularly annoying when it comes to Karl Rove, who is a skilled and amoral political operator, but not one who’s supernaturally good. Rove learned his turnout game from labor, after all.