Let’s Celebrate!

This is the 2,000,000th essay/diary to appear on Netroots blogs.  

Let’s celebrate this milestone for the invincible Progressive Movement by enjoying once again the typical diary/essay content that has inspired an entire nation to toss corporate fascism onto the ash heap of history and keeps 300,000,000 Americans waiting in breathless anticipation for the next Netroots essay/diary.

Here’s a picture of Bush:

Here’s a link to a blog that’s not this one but is filled with the same content every day.   But I’ll include a quote anyway in case there’s anyone here who hasn’t already seen it 10 times.

Barack Obama’s campaign said Thursday that evenly splitting Michigan’s delegates with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton would be a fair way to distribute them, now that the chances of a do-over primary are essentially dead.

The Michigan Senate adjourned Thursday without taking up a bill for a June 3 repeat primary. While there still is a possibility a last-minute deal can be reached, lawmakers’ lack of enthusiasm for a second election paid for by private donors makes that unlikely.

Here’s a pic of one of our troops in Iraq:

I don’t know if he’s dead yet or not.   If he is we can light a candle for him or something just as effective.  

If he’s still alive by some miracle, we can help him stay alive by watching this funny YouTube clip about politics:

I’m taking a two week break from blogging.  I’ve been blogging damn near every day since the summer of 2004 and need to get away from all this for a few days.  I’ll leave you with some parting comments to think about . . .  

I think progressives should use every form of communication available to them in order to more effectively convey what we believe in to the American public.  We’ve written a couple of million diaries and essays, posted a billion comments, called, faxed, emailed, etc, and progressives have written many excellent non-fiction books about political conditions in this country. But how many novels, poems, or short stories have been written with progressive themes?

Not very many.

Tens of millions of Americans read novels, short stories and poetry.  So why aren’t more progressives writing novels, short stories, and poetry?  How many Americans have read our millions of diaries/essays, or our billion comments, faxes, or emails?

Not very many.

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had more impact on ending slavery in the United States than anything else.  John Steinbeck’s novels had a major political impact in the 1930’s.  A novel of equivalent moral power and thematic quality to Uncle Tom’s Cabin or The Grapes of Wrath could end corporate fascism in the United States, or at least wake America the hell up.

I don’t have the literary skill or talent to write at that level, but there are progressive writers in this country capable of it, so maybe it will dawn on one of them someday that they should be using their talent where it will do the most good.