Reply #4: I hate to say it, but this "theory" is like herding cats

[zulchzulu]

Getting people to "shape their own campaigns" (while it sound all fuzzy and warm) would never work.

If "shaping your own campaign" is meant to be the "think globally, act locally", then I'm all for it. But in a national setting, it doesn't work.

It gets down to marching orders from the top quickly, efficiently and with maturity. Oh, and with a small budget and an unlikely mix of very dedicated staff willing to listen from the top down.

If everyone can be their own boss in campaigns with their own agenda or cherry-picked policies and use that idea as a Democratic agenda and polticial template for "success", then we are in for decades of national defeats.

Imagine a restaurant that has too many chefs in the kitchen. The food would be inedible.