Looking at the Blog today I have only one major thought: Have we peaked already? And by that I mean way too soon to help anyone.
This place is way too tame for words. There is no real blast of fresh air happening. The big story tonight was Armando's 60 Minutes thread of 100 folks and upon reading it I felt I was in Grandma's world Tsk-Tsking poor old Condi for not telling the truth--- as if! Did some of you fold really expect that was going to happen? And if you did, shame on you. This isn't a game, this is a war declared on liberals so it's time for you to declare your allegiance to the "L" word. Lord knows Kerry is pegged with the word by his voting record, thank goodness. What's your excuse for not embracing it?
Have you been so raised in some sort of Access Hollywood/Entertainment Tonight style of thought that you ever thought this was a reality? It's like being on the blog and hearing about Lord of the Rings or something. You guys are infected with some bland suburban train of thought that isn't even reality where it matters. This isn't a dream folks, it's reality and a blistering one at that.
Who is to wake you from this? How are you to become Activists? That is Dean's dream but how is this to be when tonight the Diary's have only 4 or 7 threads to them? And the only one that is larger, Armando's is full of twitterings, like some kind of bird chatter. Folks, the Locust swarm is coming towards us these next several months. Hundreds of Millions of Dollars worth of points of views that are not yours! What are we to do, COWER? I am only saying it's time to toughen up about all this before we lose. We seem to be in some kind of Suspended Animation or something.
The other thing I wanted to address tonight is there is no reactionary or radical element to this website and if we are to represent the WHOLE of who we are, why is there nothing on this end? Especially when we seem to have homophobic or wingnut posters etc. Where is the Left of who we are? Does this ever even cross your mind?
If we have no forceful beliefs on either end, who are we really? I was hoping to hear lots of voices but I think we're left with a bunch of nondescript voices and that's why the postings seem so flaccid at the moment. And we have long way to go. Now it's your turn: tell me i'm full of shit or defend your beliefs, no matter what. Just don't hold back as the other side isn't:... c'mon..
I'm not trying to be provacative for the sake of.... but really, how much provactiveness is there on this blog and if we are left leaning at all, where are we provacative? where do we provoke the 38% who live in constant Denial mode (like Laura Bush) as well as those on our own turf?