You're right about the numbers. My wording in that sentence was poor. What I had in my mind as I wrote that is the progressive blogs and their readers. Sizeable in aggregate, but ... homeless really ... what is needed is a STRUCTURE that they and the like minded multitudes can call HOME politically. Something they can help build and contribute to and work for. Something that can wax POWERFUL and EFFECTIVE. That role was historically fulfilled by the democratic party, but the last year has put the final nails into that possibility.  

A political party would provide a FOCUS for the progressives, something for them to pour their hearts, minds, souls and energies into so they and their children and their grandchildren have a shot at building a future that doesn't have armageddon written all over it.  

Another part of the equation is the necessity for a single WORD that LABELS and DEFINES the financial/corporate elites for what they are and what they are doing. A single word that becomes associated with the insatiably greedy asshats that are trying to own this country lock, stock and barrel. I suggest 'eliticon'. Right now there is no one word that defines these pricks. One is NEEDED.