While perusing the articles in this months issue of Playboy, I found in the Arianna Huffington interview a lit of Playboy's Top 10 Political Blogs.
After the great leap, the quote follows:
Daily Kos: If, as they say, politics is about making sausage, most bloggers are food critics who either like or don't like the way the product tastes. The liberal Democrats of DKos - led by Founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga - are factory reformers.
Now, I normally don't like to read about sausage whilst perusing the articles in Playboy as it were, but I see the parallel here. Like in the Upton Sinclair Pre-dinner party reading manual, The Jungle, sometimes a little rat or two gets in here and there. Sometimes a finger or cockroaches finds it's way into the intestine filler.
I believe, as the writer of this quote stated, the members of DKos are factory reformers in that we're trying to make Politics safe for consumption for the masses. There is no reason why people should say, "Oh politics are soooo boring," or "I don't really pay much attention.
If no one payed attention to the sausage, we'd still be eating rat shit. The uniformed among us, of which I was definitely one a couple of years ago will just keep eating the Caerphilly Kielbasa, vomiting a little in their own mouths, but basically putting up with it.
Thanks Kos, and all, for trying to clean up the grinders. I feel safer in the assumption that though a little rat feces (stuff no one likes) might make it into the sausage (politics) here and there, you're making it a lot cleaner (getting people educated and aware and realizing We are the WE in WE THE PEOPLE) to consume.
And cheers to getting into Playboy without having to take your clothes off. Not that I pay attention when I'm trying to read the articles.