New York Times: Venture-capital democracy

[yesthattom]

This landmark piece in the New York Times documents the rise of the “venture-capital” political movement on the left. There’s something thrilling about the way that the complete One Party domination of the Republicans - leading to worship of party before principle - has been the impetus for a new breed of politics to rise on the Left, a new emergent infrastructure that has very little to do with the Democratic Party. It’s nearly impossible to excerpt an 11-page story, but there are some important points I want to make.

http://dean2004.blogspot.com/2004_08_22_dean2004_archive.html#109361555293817997