Moveon.org pivoting from Movement to Business

David Sirota makes an interesting observation at Open Left about Moveon.org declining to get very involved in the Democratic VP selection...

In effectively OK-ing the VP nomination of a politician who has consistently voted against Moveon's organizational mission, the Moveon leadership lets us in on the secret that I reported in my book: namely that Moveon today operates first and foremost as a partisan appendage. Instead of using the VP question - and the presidential election as a whole - as an instrument to build the antiwar movement, Moveon's quote suggests the organization is willing to go along with almost anyone Obama chooses, regardless of how their career has undermined that movement, regardless of whether Bayh's backers are citing his potential nomination as proof that the Democratic Party should reject the movement Moveon purports to champion.

As Pat Buchanan said, "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”   It will be fascinating to watch how the Progressives react as they shift from storming the castle and turn to the business of actually governing the castle.

Since the Democrats are not attempting to change the fundamental systemic flaws in government, their base will either become alienated or compromised.  I suspect we'll see more of the latter.