Reply #11: Top down vs bottom up [View All]

[Asgaya Dihi]

I could speculate on other things but I'm sure others will do that without me so I'll keep it simple. She's an old style politician with a top down "we're the experts" type of leadership which is a part of why people get away with the elitism accusations about the party in general. In the past to a point it has been true and she represents and is a part of that style.

The problem for them with the grassroots isn't that we're there, it's that we expect it to be a two way relationship rather than a top down one and a community organizer is more open to that than someone who has spent much of their life at the top and making the decisions without our input would be. For the first it's a boon, to the latter a threat.