{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "We settled this in the '90s: \"awareness-raising\": actions to increase your favorability with the general public, to recruit with...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/698336850296864768/", "html": "<div class=\"npf_row\"><div><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"686\" data-orig-width=\"1096\"><img src=\"/media/2d78a79f0ae066bb0c03274056ee0a46150f4676_d9f0207c13f8.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"686\" data-orig-width=\"1096\" alt=\"Just curious about the appropriate tactics, because if the tomato soup idea was silly and alienating, and setting yourself on fire isn\u2019t enough, and lawmakers criminalize protests, and blocking traffic is inconvenient, and books about activism get banned, what are the options?\n\n\u2014 derecka (@dereckapurnell) October 15, 2022\" srcset=\"/media/abb01e945a57d57811c9cd025bedda120f73bbc8_8e48951c5bf6.jpg 75w, /media/3f6a79ea3b1448be85738041a41c8d2f121d8340_db6eeb500680.jpg 100w, /media/3f5d9b563e51c9d9be752748496b6650de76ba18_2155c51cfd6c.jpg 250w, /media/4e331e7087278adf886c114bd0ea1425d042050c_d9b7621937ef.jpg 400w, /media/809f303e4288bf29cb9c1b8bf646f8555c568408_41f48378ff23.jpg 500w, /media/28cbdda4d3aad9af79f34ac4883376117282ebee_88051796aed2.jpg 540w, /media/2d78a79f0ae066bb0c03274056ee0a46150f4676_d9f0207c13f8.jpg 640w, /media/0391861f3fc4e37bff68713fabbbc44502e353fb_5bcf58a24884.jpg 1096w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1096px) 100vw, 1096px\"><span class=\"tmblr-alt-text-helper\">ALT</span></figure><p class=\"tmblr-attribution\"><a href=\"https://twitter.com/dereckapurnell/status/1581226530448949252\" class=\"post_info_link post_source_app\" _target=\"blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">View on Twitter</a></p></div></div><p>We settled this in the &lsquo;90s: &ldquo;<i>awareness-raising</i>&rdquo;: 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</p><p>Unmentioned is that this was effectively a way for the <i>Democratic Party</i> 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</p>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/2d78a79f0ae066bb0c03274056ee0a46150f4676_d9f0207c13f8.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 640, "thumbnail_height": 401}