So Who Are the Real Gate Crashers? 
The topic below was originally posted in my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal as well as The Independent Bloggers Alliance and The Peace Tree.
In 2006, Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos and Jerome Armstrong of MyDD published Crashing The Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics. Ostensibly, they advocated for taking over the Democratic Party from inside the beltway K-Street corporate elitists who perpetually sell out their constituents for the almighty dollar. To the extent that ordinary citizens through the blogosphere or progressive "netroots" are more plugged into politics and empowered to become activists is all to the good.
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