I wasn't throwing shade at Sanders but the progressive movement as a whole. We don't put in the necessary work at a local and state level. We struggle to get donations/volunteers for local races but celebrity status people rake it in. The model for social change starts with transforming local/state governments and congress with a wave of progressive young people running for office but too often people like AOC turn out to be extreme outliers and nobody wants to follow in their foosteps. And this is despite being in a new political landscape where big money and entrenched political organizations matter very little. The political/economic barrier to entry for people like us to actually run and win is the lowest it has ever been in America.
We post, but we don't participate.
We post, but we don't participate.
