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Too late, Dave. Salon's crammed with what Saul Alinsky called "means and ends liberals". They're the sort of people whose laundry-list purity obsessions and refusal to evolve any new strategies beyond what was already co-opted by the Cons back in 1970, are one of the main reasons why the Cons have been allowed to shift this country ever rightward. (The takeover of our media by right-wing interests -- a takeover that started in the 1970s and which moneyed liberals ignored until a decade ago, and which they still have yet to figure out how to counter, is another.)
I wish I could tear these people away from their papier-mache puppets and tiara-crowned pink-gowned ego-trippings and make them study Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. But nooooo, doing what he suggests would, y'know, involve icky boring shoe-leather work. And connecting with - GASP - people who don't think, eat, and listen to the same bands they do! Some of them may even be black.
Since that'll never happen, I'll settle for telling people to Google the words "Obama Chicago organizer". But it still won't do any good.
