Dems Need To FINALLY Go For The Jugular...

[eniwetok]

6. years ago

It's always bothered me that these forums produce a lot of content... and yet since there's no focus, there's never a product. It's just endless churn, often re-discussing what's been re-discussed 10 times before.

Back in 04 I proposed at the John Kerry forum that there should be an on line think tank to develop what were the ideal principles progressives stood for if they had their wish list where to take this nation in 20-50-100 years, and then a strategy to get there. Some at that forum liked the idea and created a wiki site

http://web.archive.org/web/20050215000000*/http://www.rootstalk.org

but while I wanted that vision to build a strategy on, they wanted what could be used in the next election. I wanted to look at core reforms to the electoral and political systems. Like most timid libs... they didn't want to touch those subjects. So we parted ways. So I proposed the same idea here. Skinner and I didn't see eye to eye. MoveOn tried something along what you're suggesting, but they sabotaged their own forum. Early on they had forums set up for specific projects... and when the decision was made, the forum was closed. They turned it into a Great Ideas forum which ended up with thousands of posts. Where those small project forums were the membership telling MO what they wanted, the single forum gave those who ran MO a chance to ignore their own members since there was no "decision" made they could be held to. There was a rebellion and MO closed their forum proving they really didn't want to be held responsible to their membership.