Dems are anxious to work with him because he helps them raise money.
He's not very ideological in any case. He's got this quaint SDS-circa-1965 idea of participatory democracy, transplanted to the Internet. He said in an interview on Jon Stewart that his two favorite pols are Mark Warner and Russ Feingold, who are about as different as you can get within the party. He is mainly focused on helping Dems win elections, an objective which dovetails with his business (selling ads on a Democratic partisan web site, and providing Internet-expertise related services to electoral candidates).
I'm biased, but I know him.
mbs
-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:52 AM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: Kos [was: the political wing of the organized working class]
On 4/20/06, info at pulpculture.org wrote:
> I assume Kos takes his marching orders from the Dems <
I think it's more accurate to say that Kos agrees with the general Dem attitude. He or she probably helps to create that attitude and the "marching orders" received by people with less power in the Party than Kos has.
Even the Dems have to respond to the rank and file of their party, though. If the Big Boys and Girls choose another Kerry (or choose Kerry again), the activists may get turned off and decide not to be so active...
-- Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles
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