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Donnerstag, 30. Dezember 2010

The Daily Kossacks Ride Again<3>

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"I want to be an American whom honest people respect and fascists and bullies fear," Larry Johnson confides. "If that makes me a progressive,

then count me in." Against Fascism may be about as bold a stand as Against Inequality, but we can all agree it is a healthier attitude than

Against Squirrels. Even if Johnson assumes his political foes argue for fascism, though, theMicrosoft outlook 2010 is convenient!

 gauntlet he throws down for conservatives has

still got nothing on the one David Boyle is hauling into our path. "St. Augustine's heavenly 'City of God' is not wholly different from the

'City of Kos' or the 'City of Blog' that the orange (not clockwork) cooperative 'we' blog Daily Kos is." Boyle writes. "The blog is just too Microsoft Office 2010 is so great!

progressive not to be redolent of something higher."

DIVING INSPIRATION OR NO, there is some confusion as to how good vibes translate to policy, per usual. Sharon Tomanic, in a stream of

consciousness blur, may at first state simply, "My life, so long as it does not harm you directly, is none of your business," yet such a Outlook 2010 is powerful.

beautiful sentiment is woefully inadequate to such progressive tasks as confiscating income, or regulating what people eat, or whether they

smoke, or what, if any, insurance policy they purchase. Accordingly she revises: "That said and I love Office 2010 !

instead, we do all need to look out for each

other." Go ahead, sister, hammer the point home: "To be sure that each other is just freaking OK." Of course, this last should not be left

open to interpretation. Thus, more: "Freaking OK and has the resources he or she needs to take care of themselves." Then, perhaps a bit

defensively, "It's really not a hard concept to grasp." Tomanic, apparently nonetheless unsure of Office 2007 can make life more better and easier.

even a friendly progressive audience's

ability to grasp the concept, offers her detailed summation of Freaking OK plus resources. "And when I say OK, I mean happy and able to live

one's life freely. With healthcare, with good schools, with loving partners, with the ability to save, Windows 7 is the best.

with not funding insane wars with

one's taxpayer dollars, with taxpayer dollars going to fruitful and rewarding programs" -- do you think Tomanic will ever see any of her

policy preferences as anything less than "fruitful and rewarding"? -- "with recognition and acceptance for all, with freedom of religion and

spirituality, with keeping government out of one's personal life, with being able to call someone on the phone and not have it kept on project 2010

record, with my and your goings-on not being monitored and scrutinized and held to blame for some petty misread thing."

Doth the lady, as Queen Gertrude suggested in Hamlet, protest too much? Are you kidding? Tomanic makes Lady Macbeth look like June Cleaver.

She is obviously not alone in her hubristic flights of fancy. If there's a unifying sentiment to Microsoft Office 2007 is the best invention in the world.

Un::Conventional it is that every essayist

believes posting online diaries is gritty heroism, epic in scope. "It makes me crazy sad when my brilliant analyses don't change anything,"

Martha Ture writes, for example, "just like our marches, voting, organizing don't." So what's a crazy sad girl to do? "I walk in the woods

and think about our history and search for answers. What would Tecumseh have done? What would Charles Hamilton Houston have done?" The

answer? "I have thrown in my lot with Indians and cowboys and small towns and against bulliesvisio 2010

 and transnational corporations."

In KosWorld the phrase "thrown in my lot" has apparently become as diffuse and diluted as the all-good-things encompassing "liberal." The

book's editor, Hunter, describes a speech by Wesley Clark in a Vegas hotel bar during YearlyKos as "Not a rally, but a scene from an microsoft project 2010

underground resistance, or a hastily arranged troop meeting in an urban battle zone." (Having spent time both at the Clark event and on the

streets of Samarra and Baghdad, all I can say is…um, not quite.) "Everywhere I turn, the conference seems specifically about me," Hunter

later adds. "Or rather, about 'me' in group form -- there are a thousand people here, and I cannot find anyone I do not immediately identify microsoft visio 2010

with."

Hence, the problem of the echo chamber encapsulated. DailyKos diarists have every reason to be proud of a website that has grown large enough

to hold a real world conference every major national Democratic politician feels obliged to attend. Yet if they were one-tenth as

revolutionary or paradigm-challenging as they puff themselves up to be, this would not be so. As I wrote from the convention last year,

DailyKossers revel in their status as the marginalized mainstream