Being educated is the first step toward political change. But the next step requires doing something.
BlogPac.org is that next step — a group of bloggers not content to simply write words or read them, but eager to take action on the pressing issues of our day. We will not sit idly by and merely chatter as everything we care about burns. And you join us in our efforts.
…We need to recognize as a party that we are at war for our survival, one they started. We must become not more liberal or conservative, right or left. We must become more partisan. We must become dedicated to rediscovering our core principles, and stopping the strip mining of democracy they are intent on foisting upon us.
Blogpac is dedicated to turning our party into an institution that can return cannon fire, immediately and everywhere, using the internet, TV, online campaigns, and media pressure. We will fund not liberals or conservatives, but political street fighters. For starters, we ran online ads in 2004, and built EnjoyTheDraft.com, and IraqDraft.com. Now it’s time to really get down to business.”
While, as my posts reacting to the election defeat indicate, I agree that this is a time for, figuratively if not literally, street-fighting, I hope that stridency like this does not herald a return to the rhetoric of certain segments of the ’60’s movement who were intent on being radicaler-than-thou and dismissive of anyone who did not conform their activities to their notion of what was to be done. I personally think, in contradistinction to the lead-in above, that writing a weblog is a valid part of ‘taking action on the pressing issues of our day’ and may even qualify as ‘street fighting.’ Of course, it can also be simply intellectual masturbation. The danger is that empty lip service to being a change agent may actually help bolster the status quo. Please help me to maintain an honest distinction.
