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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]Gothmog
(144,939 posts)Have you been to an indivisible meeting or met with people in the real world yet? You can start your own Indivisible group easily. Go to the webpage and you will see that there is ways to find a group if you actually look or to find people to start a group.https://www.indivisibleguide.com/act-locally/ There is an easy way to sign up to host a meeting https://actionnetwork.org/events/4d56f7d15f8eecf435ce561305a20ddf7dbc648b/edit The concept that there is not a group near you does not make sense. I am deep red Texas and there are over a dozen different groups in the greater area. The fun thing is that these groups are talking to each other and doing something called organizing.
I took the day off to go to an event with the off shoot of the Pants suit Republic where they brought in two ADL people to discuss communicating with trump types. I am a regular contributor to the ADL and have three law partners on the board of the local chapter of the ADL. It was a good event. This particular group had me review their bylaws and help them as to how to set up a PAC.
Your theories are the theories of someone who have not work on a campaign in the real world. Again I have heard several dozen people at these meetings talk about Trump and the fear of losing insurance coverage and not one person has talked about single payer as the golden ticket.
Go out into the real world and talk to people working on real campaigns. I have friends who are already gearing up to run in the 2018 races. We have four or five people planning on running in TX CD 7 against a republican named Culbertson (the DCCC has a person on the ground organizing this district already) and I have another friend who announced that she is running against a local state house candidate who has not been contested in the last two cycles. There is a great deal of energy on the ground. Go be a part of this energy and see if you still think that your amusing theories hold water after meeting with real people. Explain your theories to people who running and see how they react.
Right now we had two good Democrats who may be contesting the right to run against Carnival Cruz. Saturday's tax day protest last weekend ended up at Carnival Cruz' headquarters which was amusing. Congressman Castro is actually polling ahead of Carnival Cruz. Beto O'Rourke will be in town this weekend and I am planning to go see him. I will probably support Congressman Castro but it does not hurt to hear from the other candidate. Get out and meet some candidates. Tell them your theories.