Planting Liberally

There's yet another article in In these Times today about the burdens college students face when graduating and trying to find a job in the progressive movement. It's a lot of what I've read before, and the solution paragraph at the end is sickeningly familiar: George Soros, the Democracy Alliance, and the Cool Rich Kids Movement will solve this problem once and for all, maybe, someday. (Gotta admit, Cool Rich Kids Movement is kind of a neat term. First time I ever read it.) I won't go on and on, but I am really tired of reading pieces like this which end in "... and then George Soros will solve it all." Clearly, he won't, or not any time soon. It's time for us to stop waiting around for big dollar donors to shower tons of cash on deserving progressive enterprises. We've got to solve these problems ourselves, using our own entrepreneurial ingenuity. This is my goal: to help debt-laden graduating progressives, and other creative but needy progressives, start their own ventures, make a ton of money, and strengthen the progressive movement as a result. The progressive blogosphere is a collection of incredibly talented people, and we need to start tapping that deep well of talent in ways that make money and help keep the movement going. We don't have time to wait around for the Cool Rich Kids.