{"id":3275,"date":"2005-05-11T17:59:58","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T01:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/11\/philistinism-and-provincialism\/"},"modified":"2005-05-11T17:59:58","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T01:59:58","slug":"philistinism-and-provincialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/11\/philistinism-and-provincialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Philistinism and Provincialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAre the Democrats in such big trouble (losing 7 of the last 10 presidential elections) because of poor organization or bad policies? Markos Moulitsas Zuniga thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/thecorner\/corner.asp\"> it&#8217;s all just a matter of organizing:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Moulitsas, known as the king of the Daily Kos website, sought to dig himself out of a hole today by attacking the Hill newspaper for misrepresenting his remarks: &#8220;I was not &#8216;dismissive&#8217; of existing progressive think tanks. They have their role and are key components&#8230;.However, what I said is that all the policy papers in the world won&#8217;t do us any good unless we can figure out ways to actually win elections. Republicans have a machinery in place focusing on using technology and other tools to win elections in addition to their policy think tanks, we don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hill misrepresented nothing. Actually, &#8220;all the policy papers in the world&#8221; is exactly what a party in the wilderness needs. If Democrats want to change the country&#8217;s direction, they better know where they want to go and why their answers are superior. Kos&#8217;s enthusiasm for mechanistic solutions to the Democratic party&#8217;s soul-sickness is yet another example of present-day leftist philistinism and provincialism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is really sad for the country. The emphasis on mechanism is a reflection of a defensive posture toward the idea gap, which the Dems are clearly losing. Traditional social security and welfare + foreign policy isolationism and gay marriage doesn&#8217;t equal 50.1%.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are the Democrats in such big trouble (losing 7 of the last 10 presidential elections) because of poor organization or bad policies? Markos Moulitsas Zuniga thinks it&#8217;s all just a matter of organizing: Moulitsas, known as the king of the Daily Kos website, sought to dig himself out of a hole today by attacking the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/11\/philistinism-and-provincialism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Philistinism and Provincialism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-QP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}