I just came across this cool site today
CheddarSphere via my old pal
Folkbum. It's a forum for discussing politics (and other things) in Wisconsin. Hopefully, the bloggers up there will lead a revolution that will organize leftists and take control of the Democratic Party in the state, fight the right wing -- particularly in the media -- and more closely match up government policies with citizen preferences -- which are, in most of the U.S., more liberal.
I hope groups in other states attempt to do similar things to combine, work together and communicate and then translate that into action in the real world. In Florida, we're working on this to. First off, we have FLA Politics, which is literally the Florida equivalent of Daily Kos (the community, not the guy). The format of the site and the collaborative structure of the site and the community.
Taking it a step further, we have started the
Sunshine State Progressive Bloggers, an organization designed to be a community of bloggers (and non-bloggers, too) that does several things.
1. Provide a community for like-minded individuals throughout the state.
2. Create and maintain a wiki that serves as a clearinghouse for all information related to Florida elections and issues.
3. Create and maintain a blog with a focus on activism and how to move the Democratic Party, the media and the electorate to the left. The people in Florida pretty much already vote that way when it comes to ballot initiatives, but for some reason they vote for Republican politicians. Something isn't working right. It may be the Democratic Party, it may be the media, it may be something else. But we're going to try to fix it.
We may do other stuff as well, but this is where we are starting. Check it out. I'll keep you informed as the project expands and gets going. We already have more than 20 members signed up and a basic blog and wiki set up. If you are interested in doing something similar in your state, it was pretty easy here and Florida is huge. Now as for success at our goals, that will be a little harder and take more time, but it can be done and it is most certainly worth it.
(Truthfully, I think Meet the Bloggers is somewhat of an Ohio version of what I'm talking about. So we've got this kind of thing going on in three states now, are there any others. Maybe down the road we can network the different groups from each state into something even bigger.)