Thought for the Day - 2
I wonder if the Republican strategists think that the "teabaggers" could be their attempt at an equivalent of Obama's grassroots online community organization?
I wonder if that's a model they're working after? Or maybe they're trying to coopt the teabaggers into that?
Republicans were hugely envious and saw an online/community organizing gap in the last election. I'm just wondering if the Freedomworks' of the Republican world are trying to build a lasting online/community operation out of all this. I mean, they're spending real money and effort after the deal.
Just thinking out loud.
I wonder if that's a model they're working after? Or maybe they're trying to coopt the teabaggers into that?
Republicans were hugely envious and saw an online/community organizing gap in the last election. I'm just wondering if the Freedomworks' of the Republican world are trying to build a lasting online/community operation out of all this. I mean, they're spending real money and effort after the deal.
Just thinking out loud.
posted by mikevotes at
7:28 AM
2 Comments:
the biggest difference I see is that the Republicans see it all as the masses responding to top-down directives, compared to the Democratic version which is common cause among groups of individuals.
the dynamics are very different.
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r8r, at 11:26 AM
Very, very much so. That's a core difference (that comes from the different political philosophies/proclivities?)
That's also why there have never been any Republican political comedies. Top down power is oppressive and not funny as opposed to the multitude of smart alecky lefty comedy instances.
Way back when, I wrote a post on the parties and their media that talked a little about this.
http://bornatthecrestoftheempire.blogspot.com/2008/11/medium-is-message.html
(This difference is also why the Dems can't do talk radio or generate the same kind of O'Reilly/Limbaugh punditry.)
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mikevotes, at 2:17 PM
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