I’m not talking about trying to move the people in power. I’m talking about the majority of people who aren’t even activated. I’m talking about organizing them and the ppl who aren’t die hard MAGA. That’s where the real numbers lie
Yeah, I've been there. I got clocked, myself, on a larger political post a couple weeks ago and realized where I went wrong in how I spoke about it lol
People are pretty passionate here. In my experience, they’ve either never done the work on the streets, or they’re infiltrating and instigating. Most serious people aren’t biting everyone’s heads off
That’s fine. But having organized around those positions for a while, most people don’t support the entire platform. OP’s purity politics attitude isn’t going to make people embrace progressive positions
Yeah, there's value in being strategic. But I feel like the regular insistence on retreating from our values in itself makes the party/movement look bad and kills morale.
I've heard that from regular lib relatives as much as I have more hardened progressives.
100% agree w being strategic. Most people aren’t thinking about issues that don’t directly impact their lives—those issues don’t immediately resonate. It takes time & trust to get alignment; figuring out which of those values and demands to lead with is key. Demanding 100% compliance hasn’t worked
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I've heard that from regular lib relatives as much as I have more hardened progressives.