This is funny. Also, it’s not how politics works.https://twitter.com/TitusAaronicus/status/1213923829199884289 …
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I want to get better at communicating because I want to be able to say that it is literally structurally impossible for DSA (or any organizing group!) to negotiate any type of deal w any type of elected official or policy maker, anywhere.
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Unions can negotiate w the boss because they can control labor and have leverage. Issue based groups don’t have that same type of power. Going “to the table” for anything (other than I guess to give advice?) doesn’t fundamentally make any sense.
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All you have is your brand/threat of electoral leverage, and how valuable is our brand to GOP pols, really? I don’t even need to take issue with the substance (borders) to take issue w the tweet cause that’s literally just an impossible counterfactual! Ok leaving DSA twitter now
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