As @jbouie says, there has always been this wing in the US. Difference is now you can get far in the campaign without other infrastructure.+
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Here—as in other places in the world—new tech allows movements to grow without a strategic plan for engagement with the system as it exists.
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Debate (here and elsewhere) within these movements how (and if) to try to shift the culture of dissent to a more strategic, long-term one.+
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Also. Don't categorize today's movements by comparing to past. Assess, but don't categorize. Different beast, different trajectory.+
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The ones in their 30s-40s also of the post-internet world. Seattle, Zapatistas etc. was their first moment. A lot of experience accumulated.
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So I wouldn't be surprised if there was another wave of movements that combined this experience with new energy and deep use of tech. /end
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(Yes I'm writing all this in longform. No, not an article but a book. Need to put it all out there in proper length). But what an era!
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Should add: the reason many movements don't do certain things is .. mistrust. They don't trust institutions. Hard to argue this is baseless.
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So for people motivated by failure of institutions to engage those institutions in order to fix them—would need big cultural shift.
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