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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShould There Be A Liberal Version of CPAC?
Maybe it would get some attention to liberal causes.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)It was a convention of see who could tell the biggest tale and say dumb things on order to play to the TP side. We do not need to follow suit.
appalachiablue
(41,188 posts)summer 2102 in Colorado. Very good panel; Joan Walsh of Salon, Ben Jealous of NAACP, Sen. Jeff Merkley (OR), and environmental leader Bill McKibben. The audience was pretty sparse though. So there's nothing like CPAC which started in 1973 I read today, for the left or liberals. Same with no Left Media. Both not good at all, over the last 30 years as is evident. I absolutely think there should be both, why there isn't is the question.
Journeyman
(15,043 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)We win, he wins, everyone wins.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)The "LIB-rul" media mostly ignores Netroots Nation. Typical.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I mean, really--when the wingers get together, everyone's waiting for Palin to fall off her red, white and blue high heels while telling a story about how Betsy Ross sewed a receiving blanket for the Baby Jesus and delivered it to him on a dinosaur, or for Chris Christie to spit at someone in the front row, or for Ted Cruz to threaten to behead an IRS agent, or something.
It's like waiting for a train wreck.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)CPAC is held in the DC metro area every year, which makes it easy for lazy busy Washington politicians and political media to get off their asses and show up fit it into their busy schedules.
Also, CPAC has been going on since the early 70s (read: during the entire career of the reporters and their editors), and from the late 70s to the mid- to late-90s it was considered a "heavy hitters" conference, part of what forged the conservative coalition. It didn't start turning into its current 3-ring loon circus until their "impeach Clinton" frenzy failed. You can see it in the attendance numbers:
So part of the coverage of CPAC is a legacy of its former seriousness.
Netroots Nation bounces around to various locations around the country. Whatever their criteria for choosing a location, "make it ridiculously easy for politicians and media" are not at the top.
brooklynite
(94,922 posts)...point to any coverage of CPAC other than of the Presidential prospects.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]It couldn't just be speeches.
It couldn't be run by the Democrats or Greens or Socialists, but would have to be organized independently to focus on liberal ideas and policies, not (just) liberal-leaning political parties.
Make it like a trade show, with informational booths about liberal topics.
Make it interesting and fun, not just seriously ideological, to attract all ages; i.e., include some liberal ComiCon and SciFi themes and characters!
Make it so that people can see the real effects of liberal ideas in practice. Have displays and presentations that compare/contrast specific places that follow conservative versus liberal policies.
Planned well, maybe a couple of our liberal 1-percenters would help kick off a CrowdRise-type fund for the flagship effort, with the goal of making it self-financing after that.
(Are you interested, Mr. Buffet, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Bloomberg, Ms. Streisand... others? Please steal the idea and run with it!)
Done right, it could be sensational!
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)I second this motion
silverweb
(16,402 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)agenda is reaching desperation. Probably wouldn't hold my breath on the others but Bloomberg is a conservative and an authoritarian not a liberal.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Bloomberg likes supporting (some) liberal/progressive causes and that's why I included him.
Source: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/liberal-billionaires-fundraising-2013-elections-tom-steyer-mark-zuckerberg-michael-bloomberg-99207.html
[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I wasn't commenting on his political bona fides and am not otherwise interested in engaging, so enough said.
Lochloosa
(16,081 posts)m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Conservative causes are financed by organizations who profit from tax cuts etc.
FSogol
(45,580 posts)It would be a frigging mess. We don't seem to fall in line like the GOP does.