Dude, who even knows.

16th October 2022

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Just curious about the appropriate tactics, because if the tomato soup idea was silly and alienating, and setting yourself on fire isn’t enough, and lawmakers criminalize protests, and blocking traffic is inconvenient, and books about activism get banned, what are the options? — derecka (@dereckapurnell) October 15, 2022ALT

We settled this in the ‘90s: “awareness-raising”: actions to increase your favorability with the general public, to recruit with the goal of your sizable following moving parties to co-opt your issue for electoral gain

Unmentioned is that this was effectively a way for the Democratic Party in particular to rebuild their brand and recruit a new base for the post-80 era of two-party competition in an environment of low voter loyalty, and there is no mechanism specified for groups and issues so captured to press their priority in the party

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