1. Not trying to pick a fight here man. But I spent a decade working in LA trying to organize voters. White/black/latino, not having a ride is a real thing. Forgive the appeal to authority but consider what I’m saying here...

Read on https://twitter.com/realvinniejames/status/1313163922661400578

2. You ever talk to lower/working class white or black who is carlesss and Just started a new job? They are talking about their wheels and their next paycheck.

Read on...

3. People remember small gestures like you taking them to vote. Or some local politician picking up carless grandma with 5 grand kids cuz their father is incarcerated to go get groceries every Sunday. The issues may be entirely irrelevant

@SelimSeesYou

4. All I’m saying is, Dems still understand the ground game of the black vote better than the @gop

Small gestures like this are what secure a lifetime of loyalty

Expecting logic or some Ben Franklin type Pros/Cons analysis for the vote is fools endeavor.

5. Yes, we should strive for the ideal as you say, but the reality is, people are motivated by different things. They are loyal due to different things.

I always enjoy citing historical examples of things like this. This always plays out in different communities differently

6. Consider how LBJ won his first congressional race. He was slimy from the get go, but what won him the election was him going out into the uncharted path, into the backwoods and asking each and every voter for their vote in the depression.

7. He would often go to local stores and just buy something from cash strapped locals “as a gesture”

No politician had ever done that before. No politician cared enough.

8. And some of these people continued voting for LBJ for the rest of their lives simply because he went out and listened to them for 10 minutes during really hard times. All through the Texas hill country, people named their kids after him

9. In many respects, it’s the same with how some dems just get way to get votes in the inner city even if their policies suck.

It’s the same with why some are so loyal to trump. He went out into that uncharted path and made “gestures” that no other politician would do.

10. If rule 1 of politics is “dance with the one that brung ya”

And rule 2 of politics is “not everybody is going to like you. Understand this, and embrace those that do”

Rule 3 has to be “People don’t mind being used; they mind being “Discarded”

11. Is prison reform & pandering to black community going to make community “not feel discarded”?

Or showing up after Sunday Church Service to take granny to Ralph’s because nobody else in her family will more effective?

Cialdini & voting data suggests the latter is what works