“They are willing to put aside their differences for the sake of achieving a common goal. They don’t argue with each other in public. They know there’s strength in numbers. Organizing is the path to power.”
“They are willing to put aside their differences for the sake of achieving a common goal. They don’t argue with each other in public. They know there’s strength in numbers. Organizing is the path to power.”
Every so ofter I hear almost the exact same thing said by someone from the opposite party about the other party. Really, no one should listen to the person saying these things! It’s all hogwash, at best accurate to a broken clock.
I don’t even know what he’s talking about. He and others did a pretty “good job” at convincing their people that vaccines weren’t needed, along with other bad practices, and got a lot of them killed during the pandemic. They organized around that, wouldn’t have it any other way, and succeeded. Now they just want to blame others.
Is it though?
What’s interesting about this to me is that 1) those of us on the left lament the lack of this exact kind of collective organizing and strategizing. It isn’t happening now, but 2) historically, this has been a tactic of many on the left, especially via democratic centralism, where decisions are made collectively and are then followed as a group, to present a united front.
And honestly, he isn’t entirely wrong that the right, on the grassroots level, is also relatively disorganized/undisciplined. there are militant groups and such that are more organized but even they can be pretty lax/sloppy. Where the right is better organized is at the high-up levels, the various think tanks, PACs, CEO summits, whatever, those are all pretty organized, well resourced, and effective,