for my organizers out there, as someone who’s been a manager, witnessed how the folks at the top of a campaign decide how goals in a PTG are determined, I’m just here to say: GOALS ARE ARBITRARY/FICTIONAL THINGS. (that someone somewhere thinks might work!)

this especially applies to organizers campaigns drop in places that have little to no political/civic infrastructure period that the Democratic Party refuses to invest in.

When I interviewed rural organizers that came off of this past campaign cycle, the saddest part was listening to the mental and emotional distress of a ptg and not being able to hit goals that weren’t based on anything but half-cooked data bc we don’t actually HAVE rural data!!!!