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  Sunday  March 26  2006    10: 11 PM

book recommendation


Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
by Jerome Armstrong, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga

The book description from Amazon:


Book Description
Crashing the Gate lays bare, with passion and precision, how ineffective, incompetent, and antiquated the Democratic Party establishment has become, and how it has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges seized on by the Republican ideologues who are now running—and ruining—our country.

Written by two of the most popular political bloggers in America, the book hails the new movement—of the netroots, the grassroots, the unorthodox labor unions, the maverick big donors—that is the antidote to old-school politics. Fueled by advances in technology and a hunger for a more authentic and populist democracy, this broad-based movement is changing the way political campaigns are waged.

Crashing the Gate is an incisive and provocative book from two activists on the front lines, engaged in the battle to take back politics from entitled, entrenched interests.

Both authors have major political blogs: Daily KOS (Markos Moulitsas Zuniga) and MyDD (Jerome Armstrong). This is a must read. It lays out the degree the right wing has organized these past 40 years to control ideas and how the Democratic organization have completely missed the boat. In fact the Democratic organization has been counter-productive. In case you haven't noticed. Much food for thought and despair. And some directions for action.