Today the blog DailyKos has an interesting post (by Kos himself!) that uses the recent anti-war march in D.C. as a jumping-off point for an inquiry into whether marches are even useful anymore.

He concludes, basically, that marching around in the streets is an anachronism that lefties need to jettison in favor of events that more effectively manipulate the media. I disagree. I think massing people in the streets — if you mass enough of them — will always be one of the most effective ways of getting the attention of politicians. (See the Ukraine for the most recent example.) And there are lots of comments on his blog from people who share my disagreement. But it’s a really interesting debate, and an important one considering how little coverage the massing of 150,000 people in D.C. received.