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erronis

(15,250 posts)
4. I agree - but the "Media" is not the determinator.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:40 PM
Aug 2016

There are so many ways to influence people other that trying to use the "official" channels (the media.)

In Vermont, there is a local candidate that flooded lots of unoccupied lots with local GOP governor signs.

I just want everyone to understand when you elect a local official that it translates to other races. This was, I believe, one of the ways that the 'uglicans gained power across the spectrum. Grab the school boards, the select boards, the minor state position. Leverage your ideology into state and then national power.

It is totally logical to try to come up from the grass roots. I just don't think that the liberal/democrats are very good at much other than being "Oh no, you go first...." It's very hard to fight Rovian/Machiavellian tactics given our "niceness".

A bit of real guerrilla might scare those pesky 'uglicans back into their Man Caves.


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