The "professional left": a bunch of "firebaggers"

[TreasonousBastard]

75. Several are, or have been, running for office...

and others are actually working for some good causes.

My point was that when someone mentions running for office, one or two "good on ya" replies and that's pretty much the end of it. Do you ever see anything like, say, campaign funding or organizing, for DUers running? Admittedly, a lot run for very local offices (like I am) and it could get out of hand if many are out there running, but it's not even close to being noticed, much less getting out of hand. (on edit--) and there could be legal problems for DU organizing for local member campaigns, although I can't imagine what they are.

I mention Doctors Without Borders simply because it's one organization hardly anyone has any issue with. Some of the others I contribute to are the ACLU, Friends Committee on National Legislation, American Friends Service Committee, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. How often are any of these, or any other similar organizations who send out regular releases, quoted around here? BTW, has Occupy accomplished anything on the order of what these organizations have?

I haven't counted, but the most commonly quoted sources around here seem to be the Guardian, HuffPo, and Alternet, with a smattering of MSNBC and a few rightwing sources as points to argue with. Rarely the Atlantic, New Yorker, NY Times, or other reasonably reliable mainstream source. (No doubt someone will chime in that mainstream is automatically unreliable.)

On the bottom line, talk is cheap, and internet talk is cheapest of all.

(And I admit my part in it.)