[Campaigns-l] Progressive Thought

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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Sure, I can go for that. After all, I consider myself a progressive
libertarian. ;-)

To me, blogs and wikis are like modern pamphlets. It was the
pamphleteers who, more than anyone, sowed the mental seeds for the
American Revolution. Maybe we can use the modern tools at our disposal
to also build sometime better, more participatory, more open, more free.

Peter

Ed Rodgers wrote:
> i think you misunderstood my meaning of progressive.
> 
> by progressive i mean moving beyond the process currently in place by
> utilizing tools available to us in order to better understand
> political and governmental decisions.
> 
> i wasnt saying 'go out and buy every howard zinn book, now!' :)
> 
> and now we see one of the drawbacks to internet based discussion -
> comprehension of rhetoric.
> 
> we are progressing past television advertisements
> we are progressing to form an online community of thought contributors
> we are progressing toward a focus on the topics at hand
> it is a progressive movement, label it wikigressive so that it may not
> be misconstrued.
> 
> stay tuned; same discussion to follow on democratic vs democratic.
> 
> On 7/6/06, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at jabber.org> wrote:
> Ed Rodgers wrote:
>> I'm very happy as well that boing boing pointed me to this wiki.  It's
>> yet another way to further progressive thought using the tools at our
>> disposal.
> 
> My sense from the mission statement Jimbo wrote is that we're trying to
> open up the political process and make the political debate more
> objective -- not that we're trying to further progressive, liberal,
> libertarian, conservative, green, socialist, communist (etc.) thought or
> ideology or movements.
> 
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