[Campaigns-l] Progressive Thought

[Greg Schnippel]

On 7/6/06, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at jabber.org> wrote:

> 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.

I got the opposite sense from the mission statement -- I assumed that
this would become a place for people aligned with one party or another
to gather and refine their own party's platform out in the open. The
focus of the site and the mission statement on 'political campaigns'
as opposed to issues meant to me that this would be a forum for
deciding what the national parties platform on 'X' should be or how
Candidate 'Y' should structure their platform.

Either way is exciting and worldchanging, but it seems to me that this
is the crucial question in the beginning stages of this project -
whether or not it should split up into sub-platforms based on
political leanings or try and speak for everyone. Trying to create a
'national statement' would definitely be harder as there seem to be
some fundamental points of disagreement on both sides.

- Greg