cc: @Pinboard who’s been pointing out many such underfunded races on the Dem side. Often a race already saturated in cash can raise many million $, but a winnable one that needs $100,000 to get the message out often cannot raise much!https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1045098287240531968 …
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A big part of the current dynamic is elite failure—across the board, across the political spectrum. It's been accelarating, but it's also been going on for decades. They aren't even stepping up to do what's rational for them to keep their current power stable.
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One might be tempted to be cynical about elite failure—but we're all on the boat. The pearl-clutching won't solve a thing, but neither will getting lost in the cynicism or glee in the failure. Strategic, long-term political movements are hard, but not sure anything else works.
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I wrote a book on how movements do (or don't) have impact in the digital age. Historically: movements that can do strategic and long-term analysis of their current moment, and follow through, get more out of their efforts. Book is creative commons as well:https://www.twitterandteargas.org/
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It's never "oh get off Twitter" or "protest vs. vote." Dichotomies like that make for nice narratives but weak movements. Smart movements have strategic analysis of what tool is good for what, where the levers of power are and how to pull, how to build and wield legitimacy, etc.
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Digital tech makes in-person events like this even more valuable. Tech has made mass calling easy, so it signals less capacity. But constituents who are willing to organize—it's an electoral threat and a personal message. I go on about this in my book!https://twitter.com/DWaughNBCBoston/status/1045706365635891200 …
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Like this: tech makes certain things *easy* but imagine you're a politician. Are you worried about easy things or hard things? Which ones communicate a political threat? The magic of protest is what it communicates, not any one form, and tech changes what each form communicates.
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As funding numbers get announced, hard not to notice lack of overall strategic allocation of money. A few star/attention races are way overfunded, while many close races are underfunded. What's lacking is strategic leadership, not coordination tools.https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1046853418785144833 …
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really great thread, but the system has transmogrified to only focus on self perpetuation of the power itself - open the eyes and heart wide again to be ready for the after - the time has come for it to break
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