It’s called Open Left. I’ve been waiting
for it to debut for weeks and today it has. What’s the goal of Open Left? To
connect progressive outsiders
with DC players.
Mike Lux, Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller are the headmasters of the blog, which
has been a long time in the making. It’s very exciting and completely different
from your average blog in that it intends to alter an important Democratic Party dynamic. I’ll let Ari explain.
Yet unlike most liberal blogs, insiders will not just drop by OpenLeft for
“chats” and fundraising. The organizers are recruiting institutional
partners to fund the site, collaborate on campaigns and stick around for sustained
criticism from their fiery bloggers and commenters.Lux says OpenLeft will work with organizations like the Sierra Club, People
for the American Way (PFAW) and USAction to provide “a bridge between
outside movement people and insiders.” The blog offers organizations
potential visibility, members and fundraising, if they engage readers in a
real ongoing dialogue about their strategy and policy objectives. Lux thinks
groups will embrace a chance to engage new members, because the old model
for liberal organizations is already dead. He has a point. Most of today’s
activists are not card-carrying members of anything, they don’t respond to
direct mail fundraising, and they are unmoved by initiatives that assume their
support and ignore their ideas. … ..
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