I would like to rant for a moment about a pervasive idea, captured in this anonymized tweet, that grassroots work is somehow fake or impure if it involves spending moneypic.twitter.com/YxIYv13Pbz
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Having paid people do this makes it sustainable and effective, not impure. You can't build structure and year-to-year capacity on the backs of volunteers. And their time is precious—respect it by putting them under skilled organizers
Political financing is a swamp, but the response to it should not be to ban all water. Let's accept that building electoral capacity will take money, and let's collect that money:https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
It's a gender and class issue: unpaid women who can afford, or are willing to make sacrifices, to work in politics for nothing are valorized as purer.
my experience is that a lot of volunteer stuff in politics runs on the backs of the elderly
You are right. Organizing takes a skilled hand. And volunteers need a leader.
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