"Community Organizer"

[ConsAreLiars]

The skills, strategy and tactics of a successful community organizer are rather unique.

That type of approach stands in stark contrast to that required of someone whose experience and training has been in courtroom-type litigation. Lawyers are required by their ethics to do whatever they can to win for their side, in that context, to attack the the opposition. Nothing they do or say will ever cause the opposing lawyer to change sides. Politicians are generally in a similar situation, where suppressing votes for the opposition is as good as gaining votes, and whatever works wins.

By contrast, a community organizer succeeds only to the extent that the common interests and aspirations are defined in such a way that that groups and individuals who have normally been at odds or indifferent to one another are brought together in a common cause and for the common good. And, to act effectively on behalf the broader community, they need to not only hope for change and believe in is possible, they need to be always aware that they will, remember the words, hang together or be hung separately.

Those who oppose such a popular uprising will, of course, use the time tested tactic of divide and conquer.

I think this pretty well outlines this year's presidential campaign. We will see two very different approaches at the levels of strategy, tactics, messages. Of course, the corporate media will attempt to suppress this very fundamental contrast in both goals and strategy and chatter mindlessly endlessly about irrelevancies and trivia.

Understanding the goals and methods of a community organizer versus those of the forces who fear the power of community will allow us to understand how we win, and to understand how they will try to defeat us.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Yah - that's almost exactly what they said on the MSNBC bio that just finished....

And I agree.

[ConsAreLiars]

2. Good for them!

I missed that since I usually catch the second run of Olberman and assume the usual canned stuff to follow. Maybe they will re-run it. Any recollection of what it was called?