It's become clear over the past few years that the modern Republican Party leadership has a very different approach to politics. Prior to the 1990s, the two parties fought for votes, and then attempted to govern together. The Senate was basically a collegial institution, and while there was a great deal of dirty campaigning, the basic institutions of American governance were healthy and relatively nonpartisan.
Starting with the election of Bill Clinton, the Republican Party mestacized into a cancerous political force that did not believe in the legitimacy of the Democratic Party, bipartisanship, dissent, or elections. They impeached an elected President, and stole the office of the Presidency. Then their leadership used 9/11 to divide this country, run up record deficits, take us to illegitimate war, engage in mass torture, eviscerate our rights, and gay-bash their way to further political victory under the Orwellian name 'moral values'. They have partisanized government statistics, ripped up the soft tissue of American democracy, called us unAmerican by claiming the bullshit mantle of 'heartland', turned lobbyists into an arm of their party, and are intent on destroying our party, and the liberal and conservative traditions that have guided America since the Civil War.
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.
I hope you will join us. Please give us your email address so we can keep you informed of what we're doing specifically, and how you can help.
We're going to win this. It will take years. But we have no other choice.
| What BlogPac.org Is About |
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| Political Action Committees have been the province of the rich, powerful, and well connected.
Once upon a time, the media was a province of the rich, powerful and well connected. But the new blogging phenomenon burst through that barrier, giving anyone with minimal computer skills the ability to be their own publisher.
Politics suffered from the same limitations, where the unconnected and those who lacked wealth were relegated to the realm of stamp licking and envelope stuffing. Yet the rise of the "netroots" -- online communities -- gave regular folks the ability to work together to effect political change. The Dean campaign was catapulted into stratopheric heights, and even following its demise, the strength of the Netroots helped make John Kerry financially competitive with the cash-flush George Bush.
BlogPac follows in that tradition. Borne from those who spend their times online and embrace participatory media and politics, we will use online tools and technologies to further the cause of progressive politics in our nation.
BlogPac is, indeed, the first PAC to wage politics entirely online.
Here's a partial list of the bloggers behind BlogPac, those serving on the advisory board. Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, Jerome Armstrong of MyDD, Duncan Black of Atrios, Jeralyn Merritt of Talk Left, John Aravosis of AmericaBlog, Matt Stoller of BOP News, Anna of Annatopia, Jesse Taylor of Pandagon, & others that are aligned with the effort. We will have more info on the direction of BlogPac in the near future. |
