Resistez-vous!

"The Revolution is over! I AM the Revolution!"

--Napoleon Bonaparte


I've been following the primary wars on the prog-blogs for a while now. Much of it saddens me--I've been reading sites like Digby, Kos, and TLC since before I joined the Army. I came to these places because I felt like I had a home, a place where other people could come together and be pissed off about the right-wing sodomizing America.

But man, oh man. Seeing how the discourse has collapsed on the blogs of late, I can't help but think we've devolved into the sort of "fever swamp" environment the right accuses us of being. I hate to admit this--I hate conservative philosophy, and find anyone who embraces it to either be generally ignorant or just afflicted by moral dwarfism--so giving those bastards an inch of ground works my nerves. But what are we to expect. Loyal readers are turning on authors, eviscerating them for not being "liberal enough" or for being "Hillarybots," "Obamabots," whatever you want to call them. This is ridiculous.

Especially over at TLC. I've traded some harsh words with eriposte, been called a "right-wing concern troll (blow me)" and called "ill-informed" and "a sham." Man, did you see when Steve Soto got gutted out for stating that Hillary should step down? Or when Jeff Dinelli got both barrels for posting that letter about weight standards in his daughters' school? Christ, it's like the most trivial matters are now being used as weapons against those who speak of them. It's not why I went to TLC in the first place. It's disgusting.

Which is why I was so thrilled when SoS invited me onboard at Low and Left. Again, I'm honored to hold a place among these ranks, and I plan to make the most of it. The site was resurrected as an escape from the pie-fight, and I'm glad for it. But for the oasis that this site provides from the madness, I'm less and less convinced that such a thing is enough to heal us.

TLC and Kos are like India and Pakistan right now. Digby either has lovers or haters. The prog-blogs are turning on themselves. It's a madhouse. What's a sane progressive to do?

Simple: Don't hate. Educate.

Think of it like this: The Low and Left Revolution. I acknowledge myself as but a neophyte, still slick with the placenta of my blogging birth, but seriously, why NOT reach out to the jaded readers on all sides of the primary conflict? Shouldn't we be turning our sights on McCain? Isn't Bush still president? Isn't the Supreme Court still paneled by conservative jackoffs? Why not stand up, in the open forum, and say "No more?" Where's that pissed-off Bolshevik spirit I love so much? I want that back. Hero of Soviet Union, motherfucker. That's what I say.

To anyone outside the staff who reads this: It doesn't have to be this way. You've seen it here. Sure we argue, sure we crack jokes, but the folks who invited me here are some of the finest bloggers in the sphere. And they still remember the old fight.

I say: if you're tired of the Primary Wars, if you're tired of the bullshit and the reader-against-reader, there is an answer--JOIN US. It's time to reclaim the netroots.

Join the Low and Left Revolution.