What's the point of MoveOn in the Age of the DINO-saurs?
Raw Story | MoveOn explains anti-war effort in post-Sheehan era
In response to a question about whether he agreed with Sheehan that the Democratic Party had betrayed the cause by capitulating to President Bush on the war funding bill, Pariser responded, "Well, yeah. Many Democrats joined most Republicans in obstructing the will of the American people."
The answer, he said, is to continue to organize and put pressure on members of Congress. "We put pressure on the Democrats to make them listen to the vast majority of their constituents ... and then we put pressure on the Republicans."...
Pariser was then asked a final question about whether MoveOn is losing its relevance because it wasn't able to unseat Joe Lieberman or defeat the supplemental war funding measure. He stated, "Our members are more active and more powerful than they've ever been. ... With that kind of political wind at our back, I think you're going to see a change in policy in the near future."
Comments, my friends. Is MoveOn whistling through the military graveyard? Is there anything the polite left, progressives or your local anarchist bowling league can do to end the war when Iraq is the new South Korea?
