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At the risk of devoting more time to this well-covered point by the American left, and rehashing an argument that seems to come back every single minute upon deaf ears, I want to talk about my experience on the ground organizing for Bernie in 2019-2020. https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1247920858443714562
I've never really believed strongly in electoralism, not since my radicalization to socialism. But Bernie's election project initially seemed like a "what other option" situation in 2019, so I decided to volunteer with the campaign (running doors), just to help out a bit.
My first experience giving the pitch to a voter in my city was sitting on someone's porch on the east side, a younger woman about 21 y/o, who had abstained from elections out of general nonpartisan nonparticipation. I was there for about an hour before she agreed to go for him.
I knocked doors for about three months before the primary elections were in season, and decided instead to become part of a project to drive register but vehicle-less voters to the polls on the days leading to and on Super Tuesday. By far, the area we covered was extremely poor.
Driving them to the polls is what really opened my eyes to the meaning behind Bernie campaign's theory of political organization. Of the ~310 people I brought in, not a single one of them had voted before. They weren't just young; we had a lotta old folks excited for their first.
Bernie's place in the primary wasn't just a fold-in candidate that people chose with little thought on name recognition. Every one of those people in my car got up painstakingly early to get drived for an hour, taking time off work, arranging care from neighbors for their kids.
What I want people to think about is just that. Disregard every threat from the online left. Disregard every single "electability" thread you've read at 2am.
Will someone get up at 5am to call their friend and beg them to watch their kids for the day to vote for Biden?
Will someone get up at 5am to call their friend and beg them to watch their kids for the day to vote for Biden?
When I woke up long before sunrise, made the necessary calls, got snacks together for passengers, drank my coffee and went out the door to drive people for 12 hours straight - I didn't do it incidentally. I chose to in order to support a platform I believed could be accomplished.
