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An activist who has succeeded in mobilizing so many passionate users might next head for a career inside the political machine. Run for office. Start a PAC. Become a consultant. But no. At what’s arguably the top of his game, Moulitsas says he’s “going offline” next year, taking his obvious knack for building online communities […]

An activist who has succeeded in mobilizing so many passionate users might next head for a career inside the political machine. Run for office. Start a PAC. Become a consultant. But no. At what’s arguably the top of his game, Moulitsas says he’s “going offline” next year, taking his obvious knack for building online communities and applying it to that other great American pastime: sports. And once he gets his network of sports blogs ramped up, he’ll turn to building communities in the real world, a chain of giant meeting places “replicating megachurches for the left” – complete with cafés and child care. Moulitsas has shown he can harness people’s enthusiasm, but he says he doesn’t want a leadership role in these “democracy centers.” ~Ana Marie Cox, Wired

What on earth is the rationale for such things?  Could you come up with a name that has more of a Newspeak ring to it than “democracy center”?  Perhaps “freedom factory” was already taken by Wal-Mart?  How about justice dispensary?

Update: Maybe Kos wants “democracy centers” like the “Information Centers for Democracy” the government started setting up in Central Asia?  Or is a “democracy center” like a shopping center: full of a lot of unnecessary and trivial junk?

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