(copy paste of my surgested course of action descibed in my link above)...

Not a bad idea to start a progressive party… and Cenk could easily be the instigator… but he doesn’t have to be…
If you’re really serious about this here’s what you (or Cenk if he wants to) do…

1. You start off by making a list of the truly progressive politicians that are still left in the senate and on the house side…

2. You make a website on which you write your mission statement (your course of action (see below points) incl. the list of politicians in 1… and encourage everyone who is interested in true progressive change to follow your example and do the same thing as you do (see below points) and join the membership of your site…

3. You write a post calling for action on every progressive political site you can think off… and link to your website…

4. You contact every progressive radio and TV talk show host you can think of and get confirmation from them to drum up awareness… and link to your website…

5. You contact every progressive organization you can think of and get confirmation that they would be willing to help with donation and drum up support for a truly progressive agenda…

6. You go out into the street and ask people to sign a petition to start a truly progressive party and confirm that they would be willing to donate at least $100,- should such a party be a reality…

7. And when you have all your ducks in a row (see above) then you write an email (and ask all your friends and family to do the same) to all the truly progressive politicians on your list (see above) saying this…

Email:
To: ???
From: ???
Attachment: (the scanned document of all the signatures you collected in 6.)

Mr. (the politician you are writing to)

My name is (your name) and I’m one of the millions who voted for President Obama when I still believed he was a truly progressive candidate… he has since showed himself to be no such thing but instead you have risen to the challenge and showed you would be one I could get behind…

If you (and anyone in politics whom you could get to join you in a progressive party) would ever be interested in capitalizing on the huge support, manpower, campaign donations, votes, etc. that were afforded to President Obama during the 2008 election and break free from an increasingly ineffective Democratic Party and start a new Progressive Party you would have my full support and the full support of all the signatures in the attachment…

You’ll also have guaranteed donation of at least $100,- from each of the signatures on top of donations and political support from (list of progressive organizations you gathered in 5. and list of talk show hosts gathered in 4.)…

Hope you will seriously consider being a part of true change we can believe in and get true representation of the people in the house and the senate…

Yours Sincerely
(your name)
(your address)
(your phone number)
(your email)
:end email

You don’t think there is national support for a true progressive agenda?
Just look at the support Obama got when he ran in 2008 on that agenda… and organizations like moveon.org etc… there is HUGE support…

So let’s say that between you and your friends and family and the members on your new website and the progressive members of every progressive political site you have written on and every progressive who hears about it through the progressive organizations whose support you have enlisted and the progressive talk show hosts etc. you get 50,000 (you don’t think that there is 50.000 among the millions who voted for Obama who would support a new Progressive Party?) to do what you have done (3 – 7)… you don’t think that after the progressive politicians get 50,000 emails of support to start a Progressive Party each with 10 or more signatures (you don’t think you and the rest of the 50,000 supporters can get 10 people to sign your petition and would be willing to donate $100,- in your neighborhood?) they would not seriously consider doing it?

It’s a guaranteed donation of 50,000 x 10 x $100,- = $50,000,000.- for starters (not counting the donations of the progressive organizations)…
It’s a guaranteed pool of 50,000 to get volunteers from for his/her political campaign…
It’s a guaranteed free national publicity from all the progressive talk show hosts (and probably the networks too since this would be a major political story)…
And with the promise of all the votes Obama got when he ran it would be a landslide to the presidency :-D

So yes I think they might go for it…

And to anyone who read this post (and Cenk)… think about it and if interested in true change you can believe in… do something about it (if I were an American citizen I would have done this a LONG time ago) :-D

Love Thothlike

by Thothlike on 12/16/2009 11:29:56 PM EST

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