It's almost as if one could point at the failure of progressive liberalism to be due to these placeholder organizations that collect membership, member time, me

It's almost as if one could point at the failure of progressive liberalism to be due to these placeholder organizations that collect membership, member time, member dues, and then perhaps produce some showy PR, seed the press with some outrage media, and then they go home. They are worse than nothing, because they occupy the place of something better than their "in statement only" existence.