One Progressive Group’s Shameless Plan To Take Over The World

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/pcccs-shameless-plan-to-take-over-the-world



WASHINGTON — Last week was the biggest in the five-year history of the group formally known as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee — a week that saw the group catapulted to the homepage of The New York Times after a lefty-friendly battle with the remnants of Democratic centrism.

But some Democrats here still hate them: The group is seen as an irritant and a drain, a parasite on liberal successes and a direct-marketing machine better at raising money than at changing policy or winning party-purifying primaries. Democratic political operatives regularly forward PCCC emails to reporters with asides like “LOL” and “ugh.”

Now, though, Washington is a town where purity rules and a sense of shame has little use. On the right, Heritage Action — once a digital mirror image of PCCC — just accomplished a transformation from ridiculed gadfly to a central cause of the shutdown of the American government. And PCCC’s Democratic critics are increasingly loathe to discount the group’s high-profile successes, even as they attack its methods.

They say it’s shameless. PCCC’s co-founder and public face, Adam Green, is happy to take that on.


PCCC co-founders, Green and Taylor, pose for a photograph with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, their group’s “North Star,” at the Netroots Nation conference last year. Courtesy of Adam Green

[djean111]

1. It is the DINOs and the Centrists and the Corporatists and the Third-Wayers who call

themselves democrats who should be shamed.

Looks like they are out to purify the Democratic party by booting out progressives. Okay, I'll go.
Kinda funny who progressives are sneeringly dismissed as insignificant, yet are blamed for losses.
Blame your own damned DINO policies. We laugh at the GOPers who vote against their own best interests, but progressives are asked to do the same damned thing, contemptuously.

[Lefty615]

2. Shameless?

I'm not sure what there is to be "ashamed" of in a group that has a clearly defined political point of view and that solicits contributions in order to disseminate and publicize their positions. Whether one agrees with the views of someone like Elizabeth Warren or not, surely anyone who respects American Democracy should welcome multiple voices in political debates. Too often issues are presented simply as "the Democrats want X and the Republicans want Z" when in reality there is often a whole spectrum of positions that should be considered.