You Aren't What You Think You Are

A mild and probably unoriginal observation: The hard-core left wing of the Kossacks will increasingly  be surprised by their failures because they're a less-significant force than they think.

Rolls off the tongue, don't it.

There's a post by Dan Riehl about the origin of money sloshing around the left, much of which I actually understand. There's the Phoenix Group, for example, with figures like George Soros showering the left with little gold ingots from the sky. But that's the problem--it's coming from above.  That can magnify your presence on the web and in national media, but after a certain point it can't multiply the people who agree with what you're advocating. Senator Joe Lieberman isn't Satan, for example.

Oh heck, that's just a long way around to what Riehl says:

The paper trail documents how the so-called people powered movement isn't so much people powered at all. It's fueled by big money with a big agenda being funneled into the Liberal blogosphere and to Liberal bloggers on a regular basis. Without that support, the grass-roots movement and Dailykos probably wouldn't amount to much of anything and Yearlykos [the Kossacks' national convention] couldn't have taken place on the scale it did.

In the words of Riehl and Seinfeld, not that there's anything wrong with that. But that's why they're going to lose most of the elections. So let's change the familiar warning and say Objects in mirror are smaller than they appear.