Long Tail Empowerment

The most important thing to understand is that the Left models its organizational strategy and tactics on those used to great effect by the Communists since the turn of the 20th Century.  Studying the history of the Communist Party both in the labor movements in industrialized countries, and in the rural movements of 3rd world countries provides a window into exactly how the "collective hive" of Daily Kos is leveraging from these movements with current and developing technology.  To imagine that the New Left or the New New New Left is anything but the Old Left all dressed up with somewhere to go like your corporate or government office, local nightclub, school, university or favorite coffee house is to suffer from a serious lack of imagination preventing the connection of dots from Hegel to Marx to Lenin to Stalin to Malcom X to Bill Ayers to Barack Obama. 

The idea of "joining" is dependent upon the "pull" of an ideological movement, whereas the idea of "recruiting" is dependent upon the "push" of the ideological movement.  Which one is more powerful?  The answer is the one that engenders the highest level of passion.  The Left has taken real grievances of horrific situations such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Hurricane Katrina and embellished and repackaged them in ways that personalize them directly to You.  And as for our current economic disaster minus the obvious CRA/ACORN contribution, let's be clear - had capitalists practiced Adam Smith's moral economics all along, there would be far fewer real grievances to resell and embellish later on.  So there is real, honest to God culpability on the part of people who consider themselves "conservatives" but don't practice social conservativism to balance the equation. 

Social conservatism practiced not only by Christians but by all people of good will including atheists, is fueled by a healthy self-esteem and sense of personal responsibility which outwardly extends itself into a genuine altruism in the form of ethical transactions, charitable contributions and good works.  The Left believes in their blackened little hearts that their altruistic movement is doing the most good when in fact it's now fueled completely by hatred and destruction of society.  This is the problem with "by any means necessary".  It's a philosophy that says "We're going to kill you with our goodness because we know what's best and even if you don't get it, your children and your neighbors who are left standing after you're gone will thank us".  The Left represents The Big Lie, and it's marketed and sold brilliantly by a methodology of organizational tactics and strategies which have taken in billions of people.  I really don't think we want to go there ~ at least I hope not.

So if we're not going to push grievance turned into hatred and destruction of society as it currently exists onto an unhappy consumer populace, the only other viable alternative is to attract them with a more appealing brand which must be backed up with the genuine article.  Will they buy our Brand or will they continue purchasing the competitive Brand with their votes and tax dollars?  This is the great conundrum.  But as we tackle it, let's call a spade a spade and the small "c" communist party the small "c" communist party instead of the Newest Newer than New Left.