Resurgent Draft: Arm of the Democratic Warfare

Posted at 11:58 am on Thursday, November 1, 2007, in Resurgent Drafts, and tagged kos.

I started this post on January 31, 2006, and never finished it. I used the theme partially the following day, but not completely. I have tried on many occasions — probably too many — to make the point that DailyKos, like other liberal-leaning large group-blogs, are much more than political opinionists now, that they have become more of a fundraising arm for the democratic establishment.

Markos may insist that his aim is to elect liberals to government (e.g., his attacks on Ellen Tauscher), but that is not entirely true. It is also about winning seats in red states. And that goal is noble, I admit, but it is also contingent on being a part of the establishment, and not being a separated entity, as too many blogs are purported to be.

There is only one thing that keeps politicians interested — your donations — and until that changes, there will be no “real change” in Washington, or Sacramento, or Albany, or anywhere else. And the DailyKos community has joined that system, somewhat unknowingly. The U.S. is a democratic republic, but for that to work (or continue to work, as the case may be), it is about people choosing their representatives, not online donations.

Unpublished Draft

Daily Kos has officially become an arm of the democratic warfare, it is no longer about liberalism, progressive policy, or ripping on Bush, it has become us vs. them on a larger scale.

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