Movements exert pressure by displays of strength: the street march is meaningful as much as it conveys "if I can do this, I can do that."
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So, anything that becomes easier to do (organize marches, organize or automate online coordinate phone calls) gets evaluated accordingly.
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Large marches do much (annoy you-know-who; energize folks; find one another—yeay). But they're no longer as scary to pols as they're easier.
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I believe phone calls are headed that way. They no longer convey the same level of underlying capacity phone calls did 10-20 years ago.
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How can "Resistance" display strength? Do harder things. Fundraiser targets weak R's who vote yes, gets 100 million in one day. Might do it.
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This is not an argument against marching or calling. You probably have to do those things just as baseline (their absence signals weakness).
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Movements falter when the get stuck on tactics & stop thinking about the underlying dynamic: how do we convey threat by building capacity?
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Globally, the powerful getting better at countering social movements. Partly why I wrote a book to explain why/how.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/853968637199253505 …
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Unfortunately, this discussion brings out a lot of defensiveness—as if one is belittling movements. Defensiveness is not a path to strength.
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My 2¢: You want to spook the R's voting yes today? Put up a single fundraising page targeting them, raise many millions before the vote.
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