> We need more organizers in "red areas",
> organizing unions, doing community politics, so that folks don't look
> on
> liberals as an alien species but as someone who they may disagree with
> on
> some issues but trust on other economic and political questions.
Bingo. I would only add that we need a lot more of them in "blue areas," too.
Could some of the leftie billionaires throwing their cash around so liberally these days organize a few training institutes for such organizers?
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