MoveOn Chooses Irrelevance

This is actually good news:

After more than a decade spent railing against the Republican machine, MoveOn wants to move on —even if it means leaving some of its high-minded ideals behind.

Last week, the group’s members chose their top four priorities for the organization, winnowed down from a top-10 list culled from 50,000 suggestions. The decisions they weighed would determine in large part whether the group would become a friend or foe of the Obama administration, a player or a gadfly in progressive politics, a piece of the Democratic machine or a thorn in the party’s side.

What they chose: universal health care; economic recovery and job creation; building a green economy/stopping climate change; and end the war in Iraq.

What they didn’t: holding the Bush administration accountable; fighting for gay rights and LGBT equality; and reforming campaigns and elections.

MoveOn Executive Director Eli Pariser says that this happy alignment with Barack Obama’s agenda — and fortuitous absence of conflict with same — comes in part because “the people he’s listening to and the people we’re listening to are the same people.”

Since the urge to stop global warming really stopped in 1998 when the globe stopped warming, and all that "green economy" nonsense will get blown up as people realize the technologies just aren't there and the ones that are are too costly, and the war in Iraq is already basically over, that all means that MoveOn has basically chosen to become irrelevant. That's good news for everybody because that annoying bunch was getting on everybody's last nerve.

It would have been more fun to see them railing about non-existent Bush administration scandals or going to war on gay marriage, but irrelevance is fine with me if it means they'll basically just go away.