Liberal Talk Radio

First off, thanks to everyone who came out last night to Bruno & the Prof’s election-night extravaganza. Much thanks to the folks at Static Factory for hooking up the A/V system, and a super-special shout-out to Brad, our infallable engineer, who stayed late with us even though he had a 6:30am gig this morning.

There’s so much stuff on the web right now, I kinda just want to sit back and absorb it. Strangely, I’m not as broken-down disappointed as a lot of my friends are about the President’s victory last night. Maybe because, as I’ve written earlier, I’m glad to see the president have to clean up his own mess. Had Kerry prevailed, the knives would have been out for him in the Republican congress, and he would have never gotten anything done and Dems would have taken the heat for it.

Maybe also, I’m excited that this gives us Progressives a chance to really hunker down. I feel like a Kerry victory would have been a distraction at best: a band-aid that prevented us from seeing the real problem. It’s going to take years and years for us to build the new progressive majority. One that takes the New Deal/Great Society platform for granted. One that acknowledges that Capitalism beat Socialism. One that looks at the world from a post-racial, post-gender lens. One that sees environmental stewardship as an issue of National Security. A New Radical Centrism.

From today on, this will be the focus of this blog. We will work on the deep thinking, the long-range planning of a new movement. A movement where we thank our mothers and fathers for their contribution to the civil rights movement, but we realize that, as they become senior citizens, they cannot represent the future of progressive thought.

Here’s to living to fight another day.