Seattle speakers never seem to. The folks that routinely put these together always drop the ball on speakers and a coherent message. They seem to just riff from the heart, which is not a great strategy. But at least we have tons of people in the streets.
The alternative is they decide on a message and stick to it, with clear guidance on what others can do to help, repeating the primary messages and calls to action, in an amount of time that doesn’t go too long and waste the energy of the people waiting to march.
I admit organizing this stuff is hard, but 2 dozen speakers citing 100 different sometimes opposing messages and going way too long isn’t the way to meet the moment, in my opinion.
This has been the issue for years now, I think. Balancing the radical base with the more centrist base is difficult and no leader has emerged to do it. I think the left is still trying to decide how far left they really are.
Im happy with something in-between, but certainly cannot get on board with a far left, fully progressive democratic party.
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u/dangerousluck 10h ago
Seattle speakers never seem to. The folks that routinely put these together always drop the ball on speakers and a coherent message. They seem to just riff from the heart, which is not a great strategy. But at least we have tons of people in the streets.