These People Are the Secret to Bernie Sanders’s Success
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How did Sanders pull ahead? His supporters in New Hampshire were happy to talk about what motivated them. But the more I heard, the more I realized that the Sanders campaign really was different—and not just because it had less money. As anyone who has ever watched The War Room can tell you, maintaining message discipline is crucial to a winning campaign. (Remember “It’s the economy, stupid”?) Which in turn means a tight, top-down command structure to keep everyone “on message.”
The Sanders campaign is nothing like that. Look below the waterline and instead of a single streamlined operation, you find twin hulls. One is a professionally run, locally focused effort where the candidate’s position on the Northern Pass (a controversial plan to build a high-voltage power line through the state) is as important as his views on immigration and taxes. The other is a parallel structure, a volunteer-based reservoir of energy, talent, and enthusiasm that propelled a senator from a tiny state into a national figure. I’ve come to think of this operation as the Sanders second shift.
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In an age when social media have been credited—or blamed—for everything from the Arab Spring to the decline of Western civilization, it’s important to be clear: Facebook “likes” won’t get anyone elected. But social media’s low entry costs have allowed what, at least at this point, remains a decentralized, volunteer-driven guerrilla campaign to challenge the Clinton machine. “You need a lot of people doing stuff for free,” says King, whose earliest political memory is of “when my mom took me to Washington to protest against the Iraq War.”
Daniela Perdomo. (Jane Hu)
Until she found her way to the Sanders subreddit. “Suddenly, I heard conversations no one in my office was talking about,” she says. But when she tried to research Sanders’s record, “all I found were dismissive news stories. So I decided to build a website optimized for search and social media.” Before she knew it, Perdomo had 125 volunteers, and in 32 days had made FeeltheBern.org. “This is support you cannot buy. It can only be free,” Perdomo says. Since its launch on August 12, the website has garnered over 2 million views.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/these-people-are-the-secret-to-bernie-sanderss-success/
This is a good read.
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No, it doesn't. Well ... maybe, if you can explain how doing something 50+ years ago is relevant to today.
I have noticed and have acknowledged his evolution. It is incomplete, but he's getting there.
Or is that the point? After a few dozen iterations, they become tiresome, predictable, and boring. I'll bet you can do better than that, 1StrongBlackMan. 
This is the line to get tickets to see Bernie in Colorado.
Peace to you. 
You too! This is so wonderful!
Peace to you.
Peace to you Uncle Joe. 
Peace to you.
the PTBs and corporate supremacists view the Internet as a direct threat and placing too much power in the hands of the people.
The Internet is fire, providing light, warmth and protection for the people, that's why the corporate media pawned their journalistic integrity and were so intent on slandering and/or libeling Al Gore back in the day for the better part of two years without actually him credit for his legislative accomplishments, had they given him credit he would've been President in 2000.
The corporate media saw the writing on the wall in 1998 and played Zeus's vulture to Gore's Prometheus.
Peace to you, magical thyme.
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Scary.
Peace to you, madfloridian.
today is an InfoBomb for Sanders across social media. I just signed up to have it auto-Tweet this evening.
This is making a difference in a big, big way!
It would be exceptionally difficult for them to dispute the crystal clarity of Bernie's message and mandate.
I believe Bernie's election would change the political dynamic like nothing since Reagan came to power and go a large way toward draining the toxic swamp of Reaganism.
Peace to you.
with the Internet and as a result having an inherent stronger sense of empowerment.
Earlier generations; were too encapsulated in the corporate media bubble and thus either succumbed to right wing propaganda or became disillusioned with the possibility of meaningful change and in turn became more cynical or even embittered.
It is a good read, senz thanks for posting and peace to you.