So here's what I was gonna do...
I was going to write a broad, thoughtful diary about the use of the word "netroots" vis-a-vis "base" when describing my understanding of modern-day progressives as a group.
I was going to bring in and discuss Thomas Friedman's recent column "Generation Q" where he seems to set up a dichotomy, or a dualism, between online activity and traditional world-changing activism.
I was also going to use Nancy Pelosi's recent "waste of time" comments, already much discussed here at dailykos, and suggest that in actuality we could see that Pelosi has embraced that same dualism, rightly or wrongly, and was merely trying to advocate for the more "traditional" (and, from our perspective, non-crashing-the gates) channels of "activism" from the "base".
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