Never Say Die Left: Beating A Dead Agenda

California Group Steps Into Vacuum on the Left

By Thomas B. Edsall and Chris Cillizza
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Washington Post

During last year's campaign, two big new groups -- America Coming Together and the Media Fund -- captured the imagination of such mega-donors as international financier George Soros and insurance magnate Peter Lewis. Exclusive Hollywood fundraisers drew movie stars and producers.

In the aftermath of defeat, however, many of these deep-pocketed donors have picked up their marbles and gone home. ACT and the Media Fund, which were originally billed as long-term projects, are in hibernation with uncertain futures after their billionaire benefactors stopped writing checks

Last week a new organization was launched, aiming to build the liberal cause with supporters who have thinner wallets but longer attention spans. The New Progressive Coalition said it will try to create a "marketplace of ideas" in which donors of all sizes can be connected with "progressive innovators and organizations" crafting long-term ideas to rebuild the left.

The group got going with a grant of nearly $1 million from Andrew and Deborah Rappaport, a Silicon Valley couple who in the 2003-2004 election cycle gave at least $4.7 million to liberal causes.

This is just hysterical. Those true believers on the Left just don't get it. The only thing "progressive" about the agenda for these groups is their progress towards failure. The socialist agenda the Left promotes has been tried and rejected by the governments of the world. This is not about "funding, think tanks, and infrastructure," it is about the out-dated ideas they offer.

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