That was it... Demopedia! I was "away" for over 10 years and I forgot. In some way, if I'm to believe Skinner... it was a response to something I had been pushing for going back to 04. Of course this was nothing along what I had in mind. Yes, I was looking to get past all the endless churn of posts re-discussing what had been discussed 20 times before... to come up with a "product", but I wasn't looking for a reference book, but a concise summation of progressive principles... a vision of where we might want to take this nation in 50-100 years... then to develop a strategy to accomplish that. Of course if we're talking wish list, then it's treading into areas traditional Dems don't want to touch... constitutional reform, rethinking corporate charters and power, moving to a multi-party system based on proportional representation etc. And yet without a long range vision, Dems tend to think no further ahead than the next presidential election. In contrast the far right got organized back in the mid-70's and developed a coordinated strategy to reshape the US... and it's largely worked. They developed a think tank infrastructure, created the Federalist Society to take over the judiciary, developed voter suppression strategies, created ALEC, developed a media infrastructure, worked to defund the Democratic Party, worked to change laws to allow Big Money to influence campaigns...
And the Dems? They seem to pin their hopes on demographic trends making the GOP obsolete.
So how's that strategy working so far?
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