What if we had to actually do something?

I kept trying to manifest a Democratic Party that wants to fight using the Power of Positive Thinking but like all my efforts to join a religion since 2^nd grade Vacation Bible School, that failed. I think I am bad at religions.

In desperation, while watching the 1st Amendment be effectively suspended, I turned to the Lefties at DSA and, specifically, labor organizing which is how I came to be a Democrat in the first place. Full circle.

What I’d like to try to do is to explore how “worker to worker” organizing (like that used by Starbucks and Amazon and media workers) could be useful when we start to think about a mass movement to resist fascism. To do that, I’m reading a book about worker to worker organizing and attending virtual discussion groups with the Lefties. The book is “We Are the Union” by Eric Blair. This is the you tube of the first discussion if you’re interested in the source material.

There is a lot to this, so this is going to have to be a series. When I write self-important things like “this is a series” all I can think of is DougJ, the satirist of self-important assholes and his running joke of “this is 1/546” Tweets. Hopefully we won’t have that many installments. Dear God, no.

Wanted to start right in with two organizing concepts – power and scale. Labor unions have been relying on a power approach – they spend huge amounts of money per worker recruited with a professional organizer staff who spend years organizing one workplace. It works, but it’s way too slow and way too expensive for our purposes. It’s powerful but it doesn’t scale. To make a movement capable of scaling up we need bottom up leadership; worker to worker, person to person.

The people who went around traditional labor unions and organized Starbucks and Amazon can show us how to get around the Democratic Party and organize a resistance. If need be. Can’t hurt to plan, right? Because after the 1st Amendment goes the next thing to fall is the 4th Amendment.