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maybe Chuck Rocha, saying their secret weapon for outreach to Latinos and Muslims is to talk to them, listen to their concerns, and ask for their vote. It's amazing how effective that can be.
That's why I'm not overly worried about Bloomberg. He can flood the airwaves, but not do outreach. A paid employee making calls for a candidate (no offense to people who are just trying to get paying work) is just a telemarketer. Volunteers who are passionate about the candidate they represent can change minds and drive turnout.

@WoodsDweller

I don't remember who it was maybe Chuck Rocha, saying their secret weapon for outreach to Latinos and Muslims is to talk to them, listen to their concerns, and ask for their vote. It's amazing how effective that can be.

Works really well with all these flavors of Americans too: Africans, Asians, Europeans, LGBTQA+, Martians, Alphalop Centaurians, Dawgs, Cats, etc.

The non-joke part: Bernie's team knows this, and does it. None of this "blow 'em off to attend a meeting with megadonors" like we get from some Brand X candidates!

maybe Chuck Rocha, saying their secret weapon for outreach to Latinos and Muslims is to talk to them, listen to their concerns, and ask for their vote. It's amazing how effective that can be.
That's why I'm not overly worried about Bloomberg. He can flood the airwaves, but not do outreach. A paid employee making calls for a candidate (no offense to people who are just trying to get paying work) is just a telemarketer. Volunteers who are passionate about the candidate they represent can change minds and drive turnout.

@Hawkfish A kindergarten class was selected for a very interesting experiment years ago. I no longer have the reference. Without preparation, the kindergarten students entering their class rooms were arbitrarily given colored cardboard cards, red and blue. Without any verbal clues, the children, who heretofore were all mutually friendly, began clustering with those students who h eld the same color cards for no other reason than the cards were the same color.

Symbols can be very enticing, even when empty of meaning.

He has been patiently building out alternative infrastructure, from OR to new media to caucusing apps, while co-opting the brand to retain low information voters who just vote D.

Quote apart from their fear of losing power, the existing party leaders and surrogates in the media don’t seem to understand that the majority parties don’t actually stand for anything in particular - they are simply social labels that get attached to the two largest clusters in political phase space. (This is in contrast to the Greens, who have a specific set of principles.)

Bernie is creating (or surfacing) a large cluster and growing it to the point where it is one of the two largest clusters while retaining a link to one of the two major brands. This story is an example of how that growth happens.

@Hawkfish Trusting the Democratic establishment to save us from Trump makes less sense than trusting the Vorlons to save us from the Shadows.

He has been patiently building out alternative infrastructure, from OR to new media to caucusing apps, while co-opting the brand to retain low information voters who just vote D.

Quote apart from their fear of losing power, the existing party leaders and surrogates in the media don’t seem to understand that the majority parties don’t actually stand for anything in particular - they are simply social labels that get attached to the two largest clusters in political phase space. (This is in contrast to the Greens, who have a specific set of principles.)

Bernie is creating (or surfacing) a large cluster and growing it to the point where it is one of the two largest clusters while retaining a link to one of the two major brands. This story is an example of how that growth happens.

@snoopydawg In contrast to the blackout of 2016, even the Clinton News Network cannot avoid putting Bernie on--and the Wolf didn't even cut him off.

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@humphrey How is it NOT a slide back to racism?

Either it's a pointless politically-correct euphemism for "black" people (a term which also doesn't work, nor does its counterpart), OR it's trying to re-divide everyone into a binary universe of "black" and "white", with (it would seem) African-Americans trying to arrogantly - even narcissistically - "own" Hispanics, Middle Easterners, Polynesians, etc. (and of course, we'll just nullify the existence of dark-skinned Jews like my grandfather, or of the Iranian exchange student I once met who looked like she could've been a Third Reich poster-child). If you think any of those ethnicities are interchangeable with "black" people, or that they would just unquestionably side with "black" people against "white" people in The Coming Race War(TM), you are, to say the least, royally deceiving yourself.

I apologize for raining on the parade of a rare "upper" story on here, but I am just sick of that term. It's Orwellian. The more we blather about "inclusivity and diversity", the less there is of it. They're blindly razing everything that's been learned and accomplished in the past 30 years.

that she was trying to portray. She is losing both women and people of color.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/06/elizabeth-warren-campaign-nevad...

2020 ELECTIONS

Women of color bolt Warren’s Nevada campaign in frustration
“Complaints, comments, advice, and grievances were met with an earnest shake of the head and progressive buzzwords, but not much else."

A half-dozen women of color have departed Elizabeth Warren’s Nevada campaign in the run-up to the state’s caucuses with complaints of a toxic work environment in which minorities felt tokenized and senior leadership was at loggerheads.

The six staffers have left the roughly 70-person Nevada team since November, during a critical stretch of the race. Three of them said they felt marginalized by the campaign, a situation they said didn’t change or worsened after they took their concerns to their superiors or to human resources staff.

“During the time I was employed with Nevada for Warren, there was definitely something wrong with the culture,” said Megan Lewis, a field organizer who joined the campaign in May and departed in December. “I filed a complaint with HR, but the follow-up I received left me feeling as though I needed to make myself smaller or change who I was to fit into the office culture.”