Prisonculture: Not visible to the public is the fact that this administration has alienated some of the strongest organizers I know. And here I mean those who focus on electoral organizing.

Not visible to the public is the fact that this administration has alienated some of the strongest organizers I know. And here I mean those who focus on electoral organizing.

One of the things that Ive tried to explain to really obnoxious centrists is that even if most Americans are not basing their vote on the genocide in Gaza, supporting it alienated and disables the people who the Dems need hitting doors and driving neighbors to the polls

There you go insisting on the ground organizing and real human relationships are more important than whiplashing news cycles and vibes again

Typical, isn't it?🙄

Shit - really? I remember back in 2021, NYT reported (maybe here - I won't subscribe) a Biden official telling a Black-run voting org the admin was backburnering election reform because they thought the groups could out-organize GOP suppression. Jaw met floor. I hoped they had changed; I guess not.

Voting rights groups press for a more aggressive response to G.O.P. restrictions. (Published 2021)www.nytimes.com Dozens of groups criticized what they see as a misguided White House strategy that focuses on organizing instead of federal legislation.

Early in his administration, Biden refused to meet with Texas Democrats who fled the state to press for a federal voting rights bill. Harris and a handful of Senators eventually met with them, but Biden didn't. And those were state legislators acting in a high-profile protest of Texas shenanigans.

Thanks! I knew something had happened, and that it had made me physically ill to read about :/ .

On policy, relationships or both?

both

Well fuck

mhmmm.

Big facts

That's not good. Not good at all.

We should spend the next four months abjectly panicking

I think you meant to say that we should spend the next four months getting out the MFing Vote.

Sure. So stop posting stuff like you're clutching your pearls in worry and knock on doors

I get where you're coming from, but I think it's possible - probably even necessary! - to acknowledge that things are bad while at the same time working to fix them. Stating the plain truth is not doomerism. (Source: the summer's worth of voter outreach phone-banking I just put on my calendar.)

HELL YES TO YOU ON THE OUTREACH

Don't think I said anything about pearls.

I've been saying - *gestures expansively* - all of this was going to be GOTV poison.

wasn't that a major factor in 2016 as well?

Almost as if a government isn’t just the person at the top of the ticket 😲

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