The politics of failure have failed. We must make them work again. We must move forward not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
UPDATE: Read this long but cogent post by Booman, who lays out the difference bewteen the orange and the green: (emph mine)
So, what defines the differences between the orange and the green? From an editorial standpoint, the green has always had a more radical and leftist agenda. Our agenda is not necessarily any more backward looking, but it does aim to use this medium to move politics even more to the left than Daily Kos has been able to achieve. And we don't give a damn whether the mainstream media or the wingnuts can use our more radical diarists and commentators to marginalize our message. We do not yet have anything to lose.
Sites evolve and change their natures. Daily Kos is now moving from the fringes to the mainstream, and in doing so they have moved the center to the left. But, as Daily Kos takes its pride of orange place, other sites will be there to fill the void and supply a platform for the full cacophony of modern leftist political debate.
There is no reason for the two sites to fight. They occupy, and have always occupied, different plateaus in the national discourse.
The comments really get into it.
Why not just "Roll back the Bush years!" or "Roll 'em back!"?
It's opposition; it's an agenda that defines itself. It's as much as most Democrats can handle. Screw vision; "clean up the mess" is good enough for me.
As is "Take back America." Kos is right, it's a bullshit framing peeve.
Posted by: Thomas Nephew | June 19, 2006 at 07:45 PM