1-The right in the US walks the walk of organizing, the left mostly does not. 2-Incompetence can and will be replaced with competence.
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Local infrastructure is the way to build political power, outside of occasional presidential win & its coattails. https://twitter.com/mrscience_/status/877371335965425664 …
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I hear this constantly from grassroots. They've energy. Good vision. They have no funding, running on fumes.https://twitter.com/AlexanderMcCoy4/status/877374467919544320 …
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Despite what you may think from Twitter, at the local level, Bernie & Hillary folk do work together. They're all similarly running on fumes.
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People are roaring to volunteer. However, you can only do so much between your job, family, kids. Need to staff up. https://twitter.com/TheTribunate509/status/877375382860726273 …
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But I don't meet staff up the traditional US NGO way: top down. You need to staff up the current grassroots energy, interface with them.
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Local people who organize. Local spaces. Local orgs doing real electoral work. Empower/train local grassroots.https://twitter.com/SilvanaRam/status/877383153530400768 …
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Yep. Funding grassroots electoral work isn't funding fly-by-night stuff. All this would take time, money, effort.https://twitter.com/AlexanderMcCoy4/status/877377434303299584 …
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Which is not what I am doing. Skocpol is right: on the left, muscles of democracy have atrophied at the local level.
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They do know how to do the big national campaign which is fine for presidential elections with the right candidate. But then that fails too.
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You need to build back up the missing parts of the stool if there is to be a chance. 2018 election is next and it will play locally.
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It will not play locally, it will be a nationalized election. Democrats lack a vision, not local infrastructure.
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