Here's an idea. See what y'all think...
What if, like the Evangelicals with the Republicans, we who read and blog at www.dailykos.com took a pledge to vote as a block in the primary?
Sure, there will be some who choose not to and some will back down or switch without saying... but in general, and in the face of a Republican majority not afraid of gross corruption and a DLC surgically fused to the corporate teat, maybe it's not such a bad idea?
I mean,
I just got done reading Wu Ming's latest diary and I think he's on to something. We need to treat our representatives like we hired them, because we did. And we pay their salaries.
If a Dem could count on our vote (as a block) in the primaries, just think of the possibilities.
I know plenty of y'all will hate the idea. But I'm willing to vote Gore or even Edwards should that be the group's decision... should the candidate feel emboldened enough to really be a Progressive and pledge to represent our values. I think the benefits of having a candidate who pledges to represent The People rather than corporations is worth that.
Now, it can always happen that like with Bush and his Evangelicals, our candidate will stab us in the back and largely ignore our agenda once in office. But he'll also probably be able to pull the country farther back to the left... as Bush has done in the other direction.
I think that part of the Republican strategy works... that kind of "unionizing," so why not use it against them?
I'd give up my Clark, Dean, or Feingold vote in 2008 if we as Kossaks decided to throw in with the candidate who best "courted us."
Just an idea... just throwin' it out there into the ether.