(Thinking forward, rather than just reacting... - promoted by Paul Rosenberg)
In light of the 2010 wipeout for Democrats, we’ve all been taking stock of where to go next. The recent George Soros kerfuffle about "looking somewhere else" is a perfect example of the debate about where to invest our resources for the next two years and beyond.
The argument for investing in movement-building, towards progressive infrastructure outside of the Democratic Party is getting stronger and stronger, and you can read calls for it everywhere. I really hope the debate among big donors breaks away from dumping everything into 2012 attack ads and significantly towards long-term projects that will stand beyond the next election. Regardless of the decisions made by Democratic billionaires, we can put our resources towards movement building.
Joe Brewer, Founder and Director of Cognitive Policy Worksand a former staff member of George Lakoff’s think tank the Rockridge Institute, has launched a project along with Eric Haas and Sara Robinson.
The problems we face will not be solved by the minds that created them.An aphorism usually attributed to Einstein. The utterly brilliant Newton could not have conceived of relativity. It is possible he could have conceived of field theory, but not relativity.
Obama's linguistic syntax has been great up to now. But fix conveys the wrong concept and perception of the problem.(See Benjamin Lee Whorf.) We are facing the abyss and it is paradigm change or disaster.
