What We Are Doing to Fight Trump May Not Be Enough
Alternet.org
By Kaya Axelsson
March 30, 2017
Shortly after the election of Donald Trump, I attended a conference of organizers from across the nation where I hoped to find collective answers to the question, how did we get here and what do we do now?
What I found instead, among thousands of the most supposedly committed people in our political process, was a civic engagement conference much like any other, a bland breakdown of polling by party, a discussion of new campaign technology and tired complaints about voter apathy.
Later that night, I found myself shaking the shoulders of a friend, yelling into the din of the bar, "Why isn't anyone acting like this is a crisis!"
The United States had just elected a pathological liar to it's highest office, and the most practiced organizers in the nation were carrying on, business as usual.
I don't know exactly what I expected...Revolutionaries pouring over charts and writing manifestos?
Frantic resource mapping and coordinated protest planning?
This all would have been nice, but to be fair, it was only a few days out from the election, and most of these people were running on six months of very little sleep.
Still, it was clear that the political professionals on the left were at a loss.
Not having a plan, or a boss telling them to make a plan, they just did what they always do, networked for their next job and complained about campaign burnout and voter apathy.
How did we get here?..This is exactly how.
More:
http://www.alternet.org/activism/raising-bar-political-engagement
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