You might want to start with a more controversial site name - Democrats versus Republicans, for example, or Liberals versus Conservatives, or Political Revolution, or Revolutionary Politics, or Citizens in Revolt, or 99% versus 1%, etc.
EvC Forum was a dud for its first year and I used the time to build content, which I don't think I need now. Wikipedia, Firefox, Chrome, etc., didn't exist in 2001.
--Percy