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(DIR) Post #AjFdluc9M7uedWpNbc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T11:33:31Z
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At first it is hard to believe that most people don't pay much attention to politics. Most people don't know what "project 24" is or the significance of the phrase "obstructing an official procedure" (maybe you are such a person) --but, when I think about how tense, nervous and occasionally helpless political news makes me feel I totally get it. Also, a lot of this stuff is boring and kind of technical.
(DIR) Post #AjFeCKOI8s6A6swRPs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T11:38:16Z
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For example: If Trump is elected, then at least two Supreme court Justices in their 70s will feel free to retire. If they retire under Trump they would be replaced by more conservative justices in their 40s. If there are younger conservative justices on the court then, for the next 40 years, every attempt to address climate change, human rights, everything will be obstructed and dismantled. You have to chain events together before it comes down to material consequences.
(DIR) Post #AjFeZIGODZtSAkCEng by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T11:42:25Z
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But, if you do follow all of this stuff you are probably, like me, on the verge of dissolving into a cloud of nervous particles. How do we harness that nervous energy? The right has excelled at harnessing angry and fearful energy as of late. Their "well-informed" base is pouring their energy into two things:1. Making the election close enough to fight over it.2. Getting ready to fight over it. They do not need to win, to 'win' just be close enough for doubt.
(DIR) Post #AjFemWayF9aOO28Fiy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T11:44:50Z
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My personal project has been checking that people I know personally are registered to vote. Second to that reinforcing my involvement in local community groups since, if things get bad we will need those networks. In the early days of the pandemic we created some good networks to do things like distribute food, and assist older people who live alone. That's dropped off a bit, and it needs to be revived. But shouldn't there be something coming from Democrats?
(DIR) Post #AjFf2YMpQItIW19zgO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T11:47:44Z
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Democrats have millions and millions of people who do not all love them, but who will probably vote for them in a state of high alarm but I have not seen much effort to harness that energy. This was something that Obama did extremely well. Did. Darkly, I think that was because the Democratic party, doesn't really want to unleash this kind of energy since it's very hard to control people once they are organized. Because the point of organizing is that the people take back the control.
(DIR) Post #AjFf8oNGp1mrtkLpEu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T11:48:50Z
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Why not prove me wrong about this cynicism I have for Democrats. Unleash the beast!Or, hope that we'll have just enough to get by without the wheels falling off ... why do I think it will be the latter?
(DIR) Post #AjFfF6LIvfwhMaQlJw by PTR_K@dice.camp
2024-06-24T11:50:01Z
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@futurebird This is pretty much why I hated thinking about politics for most of my life. It made me tense and feel helpless. The ability to persuade people to any course of action is a skill I've never seemed to have. And aside from voting or giving money, that seems to be the primary talent of use.Trump's campaign for election changed that. Even if I couldn't talk anyone out of voting for the guy, I felt obligated to at least keep better informed and share facts I was aware of.
(DIR) Post #AjFfvc3jOk9btQTwtk by lampsofgold@veoh.social
2024-06-24T11:57:37Z
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@futurebird I think that’s supported by what we already know: that state and local parties are for the most part insular and like the way things are, they like their invitations to the national conferences and titles etc. so it gets hard for them to get other people involved because it would mean a give and take of that power and prestige and, critically, some acquiescence on policy and/or messaging. What dem county chair wants to post a message of support for a Gaza ceasefire on the Facebook ?
(DIR) Post #AjFg2kc3zgFGRtwbmC by Snowshadow@mastodon.social
2024-06-24T11:58:58Z
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@futurebird Start something.https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow/112671128195812350
(DIR) Post #AjFgZFlzg0SyMD5UVU by ptmesis@writing.exchange
2024-06-24T12:04:45Z
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@futurebird This seems to be what the Biden campaign has settled on. It's just that they're only getting started now.The article even references how effectively Obama did a similar sort of thing.https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-settles-on-a-message-against-trump-he-s-even-worse-than-before/ar-BB1oDa7s
(DIR) Post #AjFh3LJ7fG7ID1vmZU by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2024-06-24T12:10:18Z
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@futurebird "This was something that Obama did extremely well. Did."Obama built a very good Get Out The Vote network and then purposefully destroyed it once he was in office, because he is a neoliberal who did not want it used against him from the left.This is the same reason why he sabotaged Bernie by convincing the other centrist candidates to drop out and throwing the primary to Biden. if you're looking for why the party is as bad as it is, a lot of it is due to him.
(DIR) Post #AjFinJ8cA9AWkuUuYK by zzzeek@hachyderm.io
2024-06-24T12:29:46Z
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@futurebird what would it look like to see this energy released? I dont know what I'm looking for. I get 30 emails a day from Democrats as it is and lots of it refers to project 2025. Since I'm not in a swing state, it's all fundraiser email.
(DIR) Post #AjFlgOpOuNbOEquME4 by Mazzo@chaos.social
2024-06-24T13:02:08Z
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@futurebird yes; this! this is extremely concerning.. esp. if one considers the recent events unfolding regarding the "supreme court".. in fact plural.. apropos "Bump stocks", "Justice Alito" and it has no end:/there is a guy violating a gag order 11 times in a hushmoney case, he was convicted 34 times, he is still roaming free, he is runnig for president.. a Judge (Cannon, case documents) pledging allegiance to T. no trail date yetwhats wrong with this picture? it's like a frikin' movie Oo
(DIR) Post #AjFqr2QH3Bqphq3064 by benroyce@mastodon.social
2024-06-24T14:00:01Z
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@futurebirdaddendum:i want 50 AOCs in govthow?by showing up to the primariestomorrow, if you live in New York and you're a Democrat, we will be having our primary votebut it's always a ghost town(except for the centrist Dem effort to unseat Jamal Bowman in Westchester this year)this is how the left can make an impact: take over the primaries with their candidatesthis is not theoreticalhow did MAGA take over the GOP?it's the primaries stupid!#VOTE!https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/03/early-voting-turnout-2024-primaries/
(DIR) Post #AjFrND7SofCO9DaeFk by MaggyWells@mastodon.social
2024-06-24T14:05:42Z
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@futurebird why the negativity. I love them
(DIR) Post #AjFsW3TI9kJCmla62S by Smalltofeds@mastodon.social
2024-06-24T14:18:42Z
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@futurebird Our world history as a species regarding radical faction collisions down through the years indicates it takes a catastrophic event of sufficient magnitude to shock us out of these postures collectively to survive. We and the other "Warring" factions around the globe will EVOLVE when the shock and the result have been permanently achieved. The only issue between now and then - how many will die in the interim through continued train wrecks?
(DIR) Post #AjFtwxQipHO3oylsI4 by paulc@mstdn.social
2024-06-24T14:34:48Z
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@futurebird During Hilary's campaign I became convinced that the DNC (not the entire party) existed to provide work for consultants, no matter how bad the track record of the consultants. The GOP seems to have the same problem now.
(DIR) Post #AjFwIdOYCEJ3xlDfrU by davevolek@mastodon.social
2024-06-24T15:01:04Z
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@futurebird This is an interesting angle. There's only so much room in the back rooms. The people in these places don't want to be replaced.
(DIR) Post #AjFwQ99mVNNiUttSXQ by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2024-06-24T15:02:29Z
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@futurebird "For lack of a vision, the people perish."I say - as with parenting, well more than 75% of being a parent is coping with every day's fresh crop of problems. That's why a Democrat's message is unable to be translated into bumper stickers.The Democrats need fresh talent. The Democrats need a vision. What we do not need, inside our own gatherings, is all this condemnatory shrieking about how the first two sentences of this paragraph represent failtalk and treason.
(DIR) Post #AjFxWgXnNuGvjoo8NU by cpm@spore.social
2024-06-24T15:14:51Z
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@futurebirdI hear you.@paninid
(DIR) Post #AjFyNt7zKSpw776bfU by gooba42@mastodon.social
2024-06-24T15:24:20Z
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@futurebird I believe our politicians have fundamentally forgotten that they *represent* the people rather than *lead* the people. They're very reluctant to go back to just doing what's good for constituents regardless of lobbies and donors.
(DIR) Post #AjFze3qXLTsbwbDbto by stevendbrewer@wandering.shop
2024-06-24T15:38:35Z
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@futurebird This. I'm getting constant emails from the Biden campaign: 5 or 6 a day. But they only beg for money. There's not been a single indication that there's any way to engage with the campaign. Or *do* anything. Sad.
(DIR) Post #AjG1a8zUTbjMeJfNyq by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T16:00:12Z
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@futurebird I think the long list of Biden executive orders which have been reversed by the supreme court show a president who is trying to harness that energy, but (a) doesn't know how, and (b) doesn't realize that after SCOTUS reverses his executive order, he'll get blamed for following the law, and get no credit for trying to do something SCOTUS reversed. Nobody even remembers the executive orders SCOTUS reversed.
(DIR) Post #AjG4VeVq9SwWpKLcDA by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
2024-06-24T16:33:01Z
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@futurebird From the very local standpoint, I will say that the level of organizing around here (North Carolina) for Democrats is something I haven't seen since 2008. It hasn't reached 2008 levels, but it's well above every election since (including 2012) for this far out from the election.
(DIR) Post #AjGJvqzlrWOsNoIcXw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T19:25:51Z
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@zzzeek In 2007 a friend asked would I like to run a potluck night to organize for the election. I did! we got clean phone lists in our Bronx neighborhood made by the Obama campaign and had about 20 people doing phone calls and even a trip to PA to knock doors so Obama could win the primary. It was fun to be on the winning team for once. We turned the group into food and elder care mutual aid during the pandemic.
(DIR) Post #AjGKF3b9EHNKyKwH1E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T19:29:24Z
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@zzzeek The excellent website we used for organizing with Obama is gone and the Democrats have never asked for our help again.When Bernie was trying to do stuff he never sent clean lists and didn’t really even seem to know about us though we tried to do some events for that primary too. When I called the local party about help for our young voter registration effort they said “NY is not a focus” So now we just focus on the local food aid.
(DIR) Post #AjGNCgam5sqQu5KEZU by zzzeek@hachyderm.io
2024-06-24T20:02:34Z
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@futurebird I think some of that may have been a product of the particular strategy Obama used in 2008 which was the 50 state strategy. Not sure if he did that as much in 2012. I think it was right for Obama because he did represent something obviously very different at the time; as president, he turned out to be in many ways a lot more "traditional" (think drones, missile strikes, etc) than people expected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty-state_strategy
(DIR) Post #AjGNfjlLNwQD8P7baS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T20:07:51Z
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@zzzeek Did you catch the part where our NYC based group made a trip to PA to knock doors? We did that because the call lists we were sent were so thoughtfully curated and we knew our time and money would not be wasted. We knocked on 1000s of doors. This wasn’t the official campaign— it was a potluck group on a road trip. We were treated with respect for our help and that made it worth doing. I have never seen that kind of organization from a democrat since.
(DIR) Post #AjGOA7nGbROqLwVk9I by educaremom@a2mi.social
2024-06-24T20:13:14Z
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@futurebird @zzzeek Love this!
(DIR) Post #AjGOQxcjfRInjbc4g4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T20:16:22Z
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@zzzeek Just asking me to give money and not do anything is depressing— and a wasof my talent— having money is NOT my talent. $20 ain’t gonna do much. But, give me 30 people to call? and not some trash list either. I know that isn’t cheap— but whatever happened to building the next generation and networking etc? “just give me money and vote” sounds like a scam.
(DIR) Post #AjGOhHCqczuJ6NHgpM by zzzeek@hachyderm.io
2024-06-24T20:03:14Z
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@Shivaekul @futurebird do you live in a swing state? I think that would logically be where most of the action is now, if anywhere.
(DIR) Post #AjGOhIgJ8x4Bg24jNw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T20:19:18Z
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@zzzeek @Shivaekul I live in the least swing state of them all.
(DIR) Post #AjGP1KPERPNkojddCa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T20:22:56Z
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@Shivaekul @zzzeek I do not want NY to become a swing state— that would suck.
(DIR) Post #AjGQysFCNJ7Enuu1p2 by ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us
2024-06-24T20:44:54Z
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@futurebird @zzzeek I've been on training phone calls with two canvassing orgs now and asked the question both times. When I campaigned for Obama, I made one single gd phone call and everything just unrolled. I was knocking on doors in Carson City less than a week later. Why is this so hard this time?Now it's three different orgs. I am navigating 14 channels in VSA's Slack setup or Common Power's hurricane of email messages. I've been at it two weeks and I am not feeling encouraged.
(DIR) Post #AjGUGocms2pOeZBP16 by nebkor@socialnotwork.net
2024-06-24T15:21:01Z
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@tuban_muzuru @futurebird the reason for this take from the party apologists is that they know, deep down, that the party cannot and will not offer anything that people want, because to do so would go against the party's real base, corporate interests.When "democracy itself is on the line" is your best and only angle, you've already lost.
(DIR) Post #AjGUGpStkIVnGBZ1F2 by queenofnewyork@newsie.social
2024-06-24T19:44:45Z
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@nebkor @tuban_muzuru @futurebird Except Biden has forgiven tons of student loan debt, improved green energy availability, gone after monopolies, and a bunch more stuff. It’s not the dems that are stopping progress. Even Biden, who in other countries would be considered on the right, is pushing for better conditions for Americans, even against corporate interests. But none of this is easy to reduce to fit on a hat.
(DIR) Post #AjGUGqEOtgVddVmxHc by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2024-06-24T19:47:44Z
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@queenofnewyork @nebkor @futurebird See, this is a wonderful example: you and I understand this is wonderful stuff, he's doing the nation's business, entirely worthy arguments for his re-election. I'm giving him a lot of money.Now - it's your turn to tell me why these rural Republicans hate Biden.
(DIR) Post #AjGUGquwLWXLlRgvaa by queenofnewyork@newsie.social
2024-06-24T20:34:45Z
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@tuban_muzuru @nebkor @futurebird I'll be honest I don't interact with a lot of rural people, but I know that they are not all Republicans and don't all hate Biden. The people I interact with most are suburbanites who think they got everything they have through hard work, rather than the ability to build generational wealth and benefits like the GI Bill that kicked off their grandparents' transition to knowledge work. They don't see a lot of diversity, and they associate it with crime.
(DIR) Post #AjGUGrYzwaZzlgQv1k by queenofnewyork@newsie.social
2024-06-24T20:38:35Z
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@tuban_muzuru @nebkor @futurebird They have bought into the Gospel of Prosperity, that if you have wealth it's because you deserve it and if you're poor, you deserve that too. It's helped a lot by the sort of unconscious racism that runs throughout much of America. They have never had to confront their biases, because they don't interact with minorities much. They don't get their world view challenged much. So they are less comfortable with changing their opinions on something.
(DIR) Post #AjGUGsTMZ1fMaUnvsm by queenofnewyork@newsie.social
2024-06-24T20:41:35Z
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@tuban_muzuru @nebkor @futurebird So they are susceptible to a combination of ego flattery (Yes, you're the successful ones because you work hard) and blame-shifting (But it could be even better if we didn't have these migrants and the like) to keep them from making the changes that would improve their lot even more. A lot of what they're angry at Biden for are outright lies. The "open border" is a lie. The idea that Biden wants to take your guns, or your burgers, or your money? All a lie.
(DIR) Post #AjGUGtHhXrvr6cM8LQ by queenofnewyork@newsie.social
2024-06-24T20:45:29Z
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@tuban_muzuru @nebkor @futurebird The idea he is the successful head of a crime family? A lie. The idea he is a doddering old fool? Also a lie. There's stuff to be concerned about with Dem policy. It's not uncommon for governmental action to produce exactly the opposite effect. And there are certainly those who abuse welfare systems. (Look at all the people who abused the pandemic loans!) But the stuff I've heard people on the right say about Biden are all lies.
(DIR) Post #AjGUGuN3VRoETVrvKS by queenofnewyork@newsie.social
2024-06-24T20:46:07Z
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@tuban_muzuru @nebkor @futurebird (Even some of the complaints on the left, but there are more legit complaints there imo.)
(DIR) Post #AjGUGvBOUI4izdQ7n6 by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2024-06-24T20:53:47Z
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@queenofnewyork @nebkor @futurebird So? They're lying, yes they are. Why doesn't the Democratic party get out here and say so? I'll tell you why, because it's the same useless fatasses sitting in those comfy arm chairs in Washington who don't listen to people like me, trying to tell them to get out there.This jackass should not be in Washington. He's there because the Democrats are self-deluded and lazy,.https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/van-orden-holds-lead-over-pfaff-in-wisconsins-3rd-district-race/
(DIR) Post #AjGUGw2ZIabreYIafo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T21:21:42Z
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@tuban_muzuru @queenofnewyork @nebkor I don't think it's lazy. It's a fundamental understanding of what people are looking from a political party. A friend had a big party to celebrate her US citizenship years back and I told her all about voting in NYC. "you should just register as a Democrat, the races that count are the primaries, if you want to have any impact.""When are the meetings?""That ... what?""The meetings if you are in the Democratic party. To discuss things and plan."
(DIR) Post #AjGUQNGHScAugUDIlU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T21:23:22Z
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@tuban_muzuru @queenofnewyork @nebkor I had to agree with her "When are the meetings to discuss things and plan?" Is and EXCELLENT question. I mean, I found the meetings they are almost secret and they DO NOT want you to coming and GOD NO do not "discuss"As for planning? They will take care of it, just donate money. This to me is the problem.
(DIR) Post #AjGUf8aSIozRW1gpkG by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2024-06-24T21:26:09Z
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@futurebird @queenofnewyork @nebkor I'm confused. The Democrats don't win in rural America because the Democrats - as demonstrated on this thread - have no idea how rural people think.That's because they stay in Washington. This I attribute to laziness. To what do you attribute it, if not laziness?
(DIR) Post #AjGUiQycO1WzQ2Z0jI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T21:26:41Z
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@tuban_muzuru @queenofnewyork @nebkor If you want enthusiastic little Democrats marching around and cheering for Biden or whatever you have to have meetings, and a bottom up structure that is participatory to some degree. Just doing focus groups and ad buys isn't "running a political party"
(DIR) Post #AjGUwU3hiy8H22ds5A by zzzeek@hachyderm.io
2024-06-24T21:28:44Z
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@futurebird then I don't really know. I am sure every candidate wants that kind of thing to happen. My only guess is that there was tons of grassroots for Obama 08 that there has never been since that maybe allowed for a much broader effort downstream to form. Otherwise....David Plouffe has some magic power noone has ever been able to replicate ? Shrugs
(DIR) Post #AjGUzdAsHyjYAkUqpc by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2024-06-24T21:29:17Z
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@futurebird @queenofnewyork @nebkor That's correct. And every one of these little bugs has a town hall. Or a banquet room in the VFW where people have wedding receptions. This isn't rocket science. It's campaigning and the Democrats don't like to stay in some run-down old Ramada Inn in Podunk.
(DIR) Post #AjGV1tawD2ldg7ldtQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T21:29:33Z
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@zzzeek It's not happening because they do not WANT it to happen. That is what I'm trying to explain.
(DIR) Post #AjGVkN53wW1drw487E by zzzeek@hachyderm.io
2024-06-24T21:38:20Z
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@futurebird oh, because you think a revved up base would become a liability.....can you expand on that ? Did that happen when Obama won in 08?
(DIR) Post #AjGWRJWl1ttPIhUprU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T21:46:03Z
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@ciggysmokebringer @tuban_muzuru @queenofnewyork @nebkorPolitical parties are made of people and all of those people, to some often very small degree shape the party. I'm not asking for them to govern by full consensus and doing a speaking mic or anything. Just... have some meetings, listen a little to everyone who they keep asking to show up and vote and give money. Let us HELP? I've been in point rewards programs at fastfood restaurants with better civic ground game.
(DIR) Post #AjGWWPratqK0OpfwDA by Colby@mastodon.world
2024-06-24T21:46:58Z
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@futurebird I agree with you completely. It’s blatantly obvious the Democratic Party is not doing nearly all they could be doing, especially with regard to messaging. Your hypothesis is reasonable. Another is that the really big donors - those invested in selling arms to Israel for example - will actually do as well or perhaps much better if Trump wins. Those pulling the strings do not really want Dems to win big, if at all.
(DIR) Post #AjGWylgNN1vAB7wnnU by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2024-06-24T21:52:01Z
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@futurebird @ciggysmokebringer @queenofnewyork @nebkor Way back when Bill and Hillary Clinton were governor of Arkansas, they put a big push on to improve the schools - Arkansas' schools were terrible.Come next election, the Clintons lost. Bunch of lies and racist dog whistles.The Clintons went around to all their enemies and promised not to do that. Mollified, the powers-that-were in Arkansas let the Clintons get elected again.And they never lost another election.Democrats.
(DIR) Post #AjGXdWjxpVI3i23qj2 by franktaber@mas.to
2024-06-24T21:59:30Z
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@futurebird It seems there are closely aligned groups like @indivisibleteam that do have a good grassroots volunteer program so I am hopeful people are able to use them or similar groups for volunteering for things voter registration drives.
(DIR) Post #AjGdK65NJ3eVGRC6O8 by Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world
2024-06-24T23:03:10Z
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@futurebird I’m not certain what Obama had, but it has a lot to do with his charisma. Biden doesn’t have that anymore.Democrats aren’t one party, either. We all have very different goals, and the thing that motivates one may turn off another. We have to quit being such singleminded voters, but you can’t tell anyone that or they get mad.We are much more diverse than people understand, and we can’t win without it.
(DIR) Post #AjGdU8bSnitxy4zVlA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-24T23:05:01Z
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@Extra_Special_Carbon What I'm talking about had nothing to do with charisma and everything to do with investing in building bottom up organizations in every state. The organizations in "secure" states worked to help with swing states, there were more way to participate beyond getting spam and making donations.
(DIR) Post #AjGeC1idl2PfMIHADQ by Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world
2024-06-24T23:12:51Z
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@futurebird Yeah, but that was an Obama thing, from having just won a senate race. Being from Illinois, I watched him from before he was in the Senate. He always had a ground game. He was a community organiser. I remember that election well. I don’t think Jack Ryan would have won under any circumstance. There was an aura around Obama and everything he touched.
(DIR) Post #AjGerPCnLBc04b6xpQ by Jackiemauro@fosstodon.org
2024-06-24T23:20:24Z
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@futurebird sometimes I worry our time spent online has atrophied our ability to actually get out and organize. But also I’m not impressed by the ground game. I agree there is so much pent up desire to do something and way too few ways to actually do it.
(DIR) Post #AjGkV2qgNgc25bUP1U by willaful@romancelandia.club
2024-06-25T00:23:35Z
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@futurebird UGH!@zzzeek
(DIR) Post #AjGqmLeWJzfP3YR0ca by darcher@hachyderm.io
2024-06-25T01:33:59Z
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@futurebird > doesn't really want to unleash this kind of energyIt's not necessary to be delicate about it when it's deliberate. Obama in particular was perfectly clear and direct about not wanting to "unleash that kind of energy." He did it out in the open at least twice that I can think of without any research: the OFA reorg immediately on taking office, and his lobbying strategy during ACA vs M4A fight.The GOP base's "leash" broke with McCain, which is a whole other fascinating story.
(DIR) Post #AjHEu10nLRccFz2g88 by ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us
2024-06-25T04:25:50Z
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@zzzeek @futurebird #gotv24 Follow up. I'm feeling better about #CommonPower after the training this evening. Their specific focus is getting people ready travel on scheduled multi-day trips to work with local orgs in swing states. They emphasize having loose expectations. That's good!It's still a higher bar than it should. But, if you want to do something more meaningful than stress about what people on Mastodon are saying about Biden :blobderpy:, I recommend getting into the swim.
(DIR) Post #AjHPpyEcpIxRyvmjpY by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-06-25T08:06:47Z
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@futurebird Obama's 2008 campaign was the most sophisticated technologically driven campaign in history. It created the modern notion of data driven campaigning used by both parties today.But the secret to Obama's campaign wasn't that. It was that he started training workers at the *neighborhood level* in a highly disciplined, labor intensive ground campaign (door to door) in *2006*--two years before the election.He started training *precinct organizers* fully two years before the election.
(DIR) Post #AjIUMXswPQL2n4OIQC by LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2024-06-25T20:32:13Z
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@futurebird What a crazy way to run a country. Those jobs shouldn't be for life.
(DIR) Post #AjIVIqxXeKzKkBLVyq by ottaross@mastodon.social
2024-06-25T20:42:44Z
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@futurebird Sadly could be worse than just replacing two elderly conservatives with younger ones. They may well expand the court just to remove that as a solution to anyone later on trying to make it sane again. So it could be loaded with those two plus maybe four more to create an intractable mess.
(DIR) Post #AjIbzDFXlRw7lPLdho by jhlibby@newsie.social
2024-06-25T21:57:32Z
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@futurebird @tuban_muzuru @queenofnewyork @nebkor Hard to explain parties doing more nationally than focus-grouping messages and fund-raising for media buys. (I'd bet even the focus testing has diminished at the GOP since the Trump crime family took it over.) That mindset trickles down to local party operations. How do you build grassroots involvement when there's little incentive to manage upwards?None of which means the two major parties are, or recently were, in any way similar.
(DIR) Post #AjJ8WEAqXufiifwBs0 by Red_Shirt_no2@c.im
2024-06-26T04:02:07Z
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@nebkor @tuban_muzuru @queenofnewyork @futurebird Maybe that’s their response to the problem of scalability?https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/112673438505194551
(DIR) Post #AjPIKw928yDkZVUPrc by linebyline@bytetower.social
2024-06-29T03:20:26Z
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@futurebird It's almost like there's an enormous perverse incentive for the lesser of two evils to make sure that the greater evil continues to be a legitimate threat so they can count on the moral obligation for strategic voting in lieu of actually being a party most people would *want* to vote for. Mind you, I'm still voting not-nazi, but we've *got* to figure out a way to fix this.
(DIR) Post #AjPIsJEvIXINkv9pnE by dbsalk@mastodon.social
2024-06-29T03:26:30Z
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@futurebird This is the only thing we should be talking about when someone says they won't vote for Biden because he's not strong on the environment, or hasn't held back inflation, or (gasp!) he's too old: none of that will matter if Trump is allowed to nominate two more SCOTUS justices. SCOTUS should be Issue Number One ahead of everything else for the Dems. It's scary that it is not.