We settled this in the '90s: "awareness-raising", actions to increase your favorability with the general public, to recruit with...
We settled this in the ‘90s: “awareness-raising”, 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
Unmentioned is that this was effectively a way for the Democratic Party 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
@yuyurana said: I don’t know how serious this answer is. However, here seems to be an obvious flaw there, where people have been working on raising awareness about climate change for decades now and we’re rapidly running out of time.
I live in Portland. To the extent that “if activists can’t move their lefty-favored issues no matter how hard they politely ask you just gotsta let them go wild” had any account – and it did – it was drained in 2020, and any further checks written against it will bounce.