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"Some years back, when the Green party won over 104,000 votes in this state, I put together a plan to organize and field teams that could cover the state, establishing viable little groups where the vote was in double digits and cultivating a statewide network that would circulate speakers and engage in regular public forums and events. " Presumably that is what every campaign does, and it requires money and time. I don't get how it could be done without people to finance it. On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 11:48 PM Mark Lause <[email protected]> wrote: > We seem to be so far down the rabbit hole of money-centered > corporate-consumerist politics. Raising money to open offices and hire > canvassers is no alternative to a system based on that circular process. > The alternative to running as Democrats is not running LIKE Democrats. > > A challenge to the structure of electoral politics has to be reflected in > our practice, not just in abstract and aspirational terms. What we need > are politics based on people. We need something with membership that will > maintain some coherence between elections and generate recognizably good > advocates that can run for office and--most importantly--plenty of > volunteers to take the case to the wider society. Some years back, when > the Green party won over 104,000 votes in this state, I put together a plan > to organize and field teams that could cover the state, establishing viable > little groups where the vote was in double digits and cultivating a > statewide network that would circulate speakers and engage in regular > public forums and events. > > The old Socialists and other insurgents established membership bodies that > amounted to roughly a tenth of their voting strength. Out of over 104,000 > voters, we could have put together an organization of several thousand and, > with the right work, been able to get a significantly higher vote total in > the next election. But the self-elected "leaders" feared something of > which they would not be guaranteed control. And the bulk of them have > since slithered off to the Democrats. > > As I've pointed out repeatedly, there is no reason why various groups > couldn't cobble together a united electoral front at the local, state, > regional or national that could do something like this. Make it > people-focused and have confidence that good politics will always prevail > in a fair fight out in the open. > > > > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
