I think WorldChanging also has a rule about no bad news, but still, it's a good idea. I know some people have stayed away from the Samizdat in the past because it had seemed like too much bad news, therefore depressing. At least a year ago, inspired by WorldChanging, I began to put on more future positive stuff regarding alternative energy, transportation, etc. I do think it is vital for any 'political force'--in this case progressivism--to put forward ideas and plans for a positive future before anything else. They must inspire first of all with intelligent and creative leadership. (Second, fight. No room for Lieberman chumps. Everyone should have learned after Clinton's first campaign to respond within 24 hours to any attack, including the now spineless and completely impotent Kerry.)
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."