Getting the people organized

In the battle of people versus money, consider how those with money organize their campaigns.

To wit, they pay for what they want done, and exactly how they want it done, and they can get whatever organized effort carried out they think will be most effective for accomplishing their campaign objective.

Compare that to people power, which does not have money to pay for campaign efforts as a way to get them carried out in organized ways.

Not being able to pay money, people power, if it believes organized activity has greater potential, needs to persuade volunteers to do things as part of an organized effort for accomplishing a desired objective.

This can be hard to do.

Volunteers frequently have their own ideas about what they will and will not do.

This propensity of volunteers can easily defeat organized activity.

That may be what happens in the end, to wit, there will not be organized activity for people power to accomplish an objective.

So, those on the people power side need to decide what they think about the value of organized activities. They need to decide whether an organized activity has greater potential to accomplish a result that a myriad of unorganized individuals doing their own things will fail to achieve. Money power believes organized activities work better and will pay for them. How willing are those on the people power side willing to cede the advantage of organization to money power? Maybe those on the people power side will determine they are not going to cede such an advantage, and they will exert themselves to curb their propensity to do their own thing and they will strive hard for organizing themselves.

As a case in point, consider the matter of live tweeting during last night's Republican debate.

Please read and think about what I say in my previous blog entry Tweeting during debate as it has bearing on carrying out organized tweeting.

I solicit anyone who wants to participate in organized tweeting during the Democratic debate this Saturday to please let me know, and let's discuss the possibilities.

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— CAFREEAct (@CAFreeAct) December 17, 2015

UPDATE 12/17
If you are strong for the #DemocracySpring mass nonviolent action in Washington DC next April, please read my entry #DeclareForDemocracy and #DemocracySpring, which discusses how I think my #DeclareForDemocracy effort can help the #DemocracySpring campaign.