As happens too frequently, there is little understanding of what civic education/resistance groups do on the local level to build civic infrastructure, recruit candidates, and insure education on important issues to a population that is overall tuned out. The fights against gerrymandering, working to insure voting rights, expand healthcare, public education defense, and more do not garner national coverage. Without this unglamorous, mostly female led, unpaid, 24/7, year round organizing, we would be in deeper trouble than many realize.
I won't speak for Jentleson, but I don't think he's blaming the groups as much as he's blaming the party for not being more disciplined about the stances the candidates take. The job of the groups is to move the overton window. The job of the candidate is to win. There should be healthy tension between the two.
If I have a beef with either, it's the dem focus on messaging over delivery. If the groups want to move towards ensuring meaningful outcomes for people, not just getting the words right, give them all the power in the world.
(I actually want to apologize because I meant to come back in and comment/respond with gratitude to much of the content in this post, but was derailed by the events of the day. I did not meant to pluck out that one dashed-off q as the only takeaway from a newsletter full of rich content.)
My first question, directed at nobody, is: if David Plouffe is advising Binance, why the f*ck didn't Kamala accept the invitation to speak at the Bitcoin Conference as a path towards at least maybe not hemorrhaging some of those single-issue voters?
Great piece as always, Micah. Thanks.
As happens too frequently, there is little understanding of what civic education/resistance groups do on the local level to build civic infrastructure, recruit candidates, and insure education on important issues to a population that is overall tuned out. The fights against gerrymandering, working to insure voting rights, expand healthcare, public education defense, and more do not garner national coverage. Without this unglamorous, mostly female led, unpaid, 24/7, year round organizing, we would be in deeper trouble than many realize.
I won't speak for Jentleson, but I don't think he's blaming the groups as much as he's blaming the party for not being more disciplined about the stances the candidates take. The job of the groups is to move the overton window. The job of the candidate is to win. There should be healthy tension between the two.
If I have a beef with either, it's the dem focus on messaging over delivery. If the groups want to move towards ensuring meaningful outcomes for people, not just getting the words right, give them all the power in the world.
(I actually want to apologize because I meant to come back in and comment/respond with gratitude to much of the content in this post, but was derailed by the events of the day. I did not meant to pluck out that one dashed-off q as the only takeaway from a newsletter full of rich content.)
My first question, directed at nobody, is: if David Plouffe is advising Binance, why the f*ck didn't Kamala accept the invitation to speak at the Bitcoin Conference as a path towards at least maybe not hemorrhaging some of those single-issue voters?