Alright, I’ve listened to the podcasts and read the smart people (citations at the end), let’s boil down the plan:
1) We’re not going to start talking back *primarily* in DC and NYC.
Why? They don’t control outlying areas as firmly. And we need to scare those electeds about their next term. (1/?)
1) We’re not going to start talking back *primarily* in DC and NYC.
Why? They don’t control outlying areas as firmly. And we need to scare those electeds about their next term. (1/?)
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Guess who’s nervous? All the elected GOP in those areas.
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It is For or Against. Or as @booker.senate.gov said, “Not right or left, right or wrong.”
I know this is hard, maybe the hardest part. People WILL be uncomfortably less / more woke than you.
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It will take pipe-fitter unions and university staff, doctors and moms, seniors and teachers and farmers and everyone in between.
It’s FOR or AGAINST.
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We’ll volunteer and find each other, because that will start to knit us together for bigger plans.
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I can’t balance a spreadsheet to save my life but I can write.
Offer what you do best. We will need all kinds and all skills.
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I know, it feels reductive. Or even like we’re abandoning issues that affect fewer people.
But we have to stop the bleeding first, by making them answer for their promises.
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