I'm talking grassroots that has emerged and is on fire after 2016, you are talking something completely different. Not sure how to continue.
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Replying to @zeynep
I've heard this every cycle since 2002. I've read the history. This model has always failed. Always. Grassroots isn't virtuous. It just is.
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Replying to @matthewstoller @zeynep
What you need is a vision, with leaders from all over, including DC. What we have are failures, all over, including DC.
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Replying to @matthewstoller
I don't know why you are arguing "vision" thing with me since I didn't even disagree.
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Replying to @zeynep
Yeah I don't think we disagree on that much, which is why I'm engaging with you on it.
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Replying to @matthewstoller
Been here, involved studying US movements since 2002; I'd say that there has never been this kind of mobilization. Not Occupy, not anti-war.
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Replying to @zeynep @matthewstoller
And many the themes you'd want in that "vision": monopoly, fairness, opportunity, are integral to that mobilization. Lacking infrastructure.
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Replying to @zeynep @matthewstoller
Pointing out you cannot build political power without local electoral/grassroots infrastructure isn't countering the "vision" issue.
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Replying to @zeynep
But isn't there a ton of this now? I thought you said there's more mobilization than you've ever seen.
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Replying to @matthewstoller @zeynep
I see a lot of mobilization, but I also see a lot of mobilization of people to fight other mobilized people who have shared interests.
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There is enormous energy; there isn't enough infrastructure building. I have observed in many countries how that hits a wall.
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