foshi-etock.bsky.social
I just made an account to block people, didn't really expect to post anything.
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Sorry, no money to field candidates against hundreds of down-ballot republicans with no challengers, we gotta spend 100k building a set to a podcast.
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Have local groups run regular streams where they just do the boring but necessary work of organizing with engagement from the local community and affiliates.
I think it'd create space where people can casually contribute by gathering/compiling data or making phone calls from home on their own time.
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People used to physically gather and collaborate to an unimaginably higher degree (3-5% of the entire adult population used to LEAD small groups in organizing).
With the destruction of 3rd spaces and cultural shifts, I think we need to lean on internet tools like streaming to rebuild power.
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'When he died' - Lemon Demon - 2016
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If you had a hundred other state senators across the country putting out clips in solidarity with their marginalized base that would go a long way to gaining trust with people; And people wouldn't be asking what the hell the Dems are doing as fascists wreck everything.
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An engaged base has goals and makes demands, and that's just irritating for the Dems who just want to coast on bare-bones management of the status-quo rather than progressive change.
Utterly bizarre that loyalists picked up on and share their desire to do nothing but depress energy.
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Political action isn't a consumable you have a limited amount of, it's a muscle to work out.
Engaging in action everywhere doesn't mean burning out, it means priming your base to continue to stay engaged, and Dem leadership HATES that.
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It's nice that they pay lip service to ousting Republicans, but the whole reason Reps run the table is because their 'opposition' is terrible.
Dismantling Obama's organizing coalition and Howard Dean's 50 state strategy was the work of the current Dem leadership, and they did it intentionally.
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Perhaps that's too abstract/not punchy enough to galvanize people, but the results of those decisions are hard to deny. Some workshopping might make for effective messaging.
Even centrists can agree that politicians shouldn't win their elections without a challenge due to pro-competition branding.
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They created a massive coalition to elect Obama, one they could've used to build lasting power. But that would only happen by allowing some decentralization, and they couldn't trust their base to stick with bare-minimum neoliberal maintenance. Dems threw it away instead of attempting to manage them.
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Kinda hard to believe the Democratic Party is doing everything it can to beat Republicans when they're twiddling their thumbs as Hundreds of Republicans across the country run a conga line into office unopposed.
I think if it's a sticking point for me it might move others too. I hope at least.
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My personal obsession has been how many Republicans get into office without a challenger and the Democratic Party has no mass candidate recruitment campaigns.
If the least a citizen should do is vote, then the least a party should do is run, and the dems just give up half the country by default.
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I'm a big fan of their "Ignore half the country" strategy. Training your voters not to care about voting because only your adversary is on the ballot is a brilliant move I could only expect from the geniuses in charge of the Democratic Party.
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Hated flossing until floss-picks became a thing.
Their existence crystalized the concept to me that people won't change their behavior just because it's beneficial, but they might if it's also easy.
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Yep, people don't change their behavior just because it's necessary, they do it when it's EASY.
The dems are blatantly throwing any hint of leadership from their ranks away, which is a massive opportunity for anyone willing to take charge. People will support whoever steps up by default.
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Pick a random non-coastal state and look up the results of the most recent election. Start counting how many Republicans won their races completely unopposed.
It's hundreds. The Dems couldn't even be bothered to compete for half the state governments in the country.
The entire Party is hollow.
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Honestly, with how far the Dems organizational power has atrophied you'd need to basically remake the party from the ground up anyway, and the Dems will be fighting you the whole way.
Easier to start a new party without the stink of sniveling appeasement.
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I think it's quite doable when done incrementally over the next 2 years.
It would be a better use of effort than pleading with Democrats to fight for the policies they're already "supposed" to care about when they'd rather appease conservatives. Just screaming into the void.
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Sure that's on the cheaper end and it'll add up if you run for EVERYTHING, but it's certainly a better use of funds than the $100,000 Kamala spent building a set to a PODCAST (that even already had one)!
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Depending on the state, getting on the ballot isn't even that costly. In mine it's $50 for local positions and $200 for state senate, with the highest statewide positions being $500.
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The fact that both parties just let their "enemy" go unchecked even in their own strongholds suggests to me that typical party structures have a weakness in organization (Or they just like giving their "adversary" wins), something I think a crowdsourced campaign has the opportunity to exploit.
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People say voting is the least you can do, but I think as a party running candidates is the least you can do.
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It annoyed me that after all this time hearing how 3rd parties only bother showing up for president, the Democratic party was no different.
I checked and there's actually a lot of races with only a single candidate running unopposed, even Reps against no-one in deep blue states and Dems in red.