Longtime reader Alice Marshall wrote a book that anyone doing grassroots politics should have.
Poor and middle class people, the 99%, have no control over their rent–Excerpt from The Precinct Captain’s Guide to Political Victory. with hyper link –
or mortgage, no control over their bank, their utility company, their
insurance company, children’s school, place of employment, or a host of
other institutions that shape their life. Political parties are asking
people to believe that once a year they can go into a booth, press some
buttons, and materially affect their life. Nothing in their experience
in life suggests that this simple act will have real consequences. So
how can party activists at the local level change that? Non-voters will respond to personal appeals to vote. We saw that in
Fairfax County, which is how it went from a swing jurisdiction to a
solid Democratic one.
From Amazon reviews: As an County Executive Committee member, I have made this required reading for all of our precinct captains. If you’re organizing, I highly recommend it.
Since the election of Trump, Republican voters have been lying around fat and happy because their boy Donald the con was in the WH and McConnell was jamming everything except the kitchen sink through the senate using the Republican majority.
No worries.
Then came Kavanaugh.
Now the Right is all fired up because the Democrats, the Left, and anyone who opposes Trump is “evil.”
Yawn.
But wouldn’t it be sad if we let 50 Republican voters defeat a 1000 non-Republican voters, simply because the non-Republicans didn’t show up to vote?
And sad to say the onus is once again on women voters to save the day on November 6, because men can never seem to get out of their own way. Poor bastards.