Bloomberg Building Grass Roots Anti-2A Controllers
BY Herschel Smith4 years, 10 months ago
We’ve long said that if you want to make sure you get pro-gun politicians elected to Congress and the various state houses, we have to start pushing candidates at the local level. It is the rare candidate that starts out running for office at the state or national level. For every Donald Trump, there are thousands and thousands of other politicians that started with the school board, town council, or even just a town or county appointed committee.
Everytown has just made endorsements for three candidates at the school board or city council level. The fact that they are pushing gun prohibitionists at this level says a number of things. First, they are actually using Bloomberg’s money to start building an actual grassroots. Second, they recognize that candidates start local and then move up from there. Third, it is an expansion of their efforts from the state level to the local level since they have no had success (so far) at the nation level.
Well, it depends upon whether you believe red flag confiscation laws are a local or a national success for the controllers. In some sense they’re national, given that the NRA gave them cover and Trump reassured them it was the thing to do.
It may also be said that a true grass roots movement isn’t really about the people in charge so much as the people who put them there. In other words, what’s really important is what the people think, not the politicians.
On the other hand, they are educating the future electorate, and in that they will be profoundly successful. This is Horace Mann’s communist project bringing fruit. I see Bloomberg and Mann in the same mold, just with Bloomberg being stupider.
On May 6, 2019 at 5:45 am, Nosmo said:
This is the manufacturing process for Obamas.
Something the Left has refined into an art form, and of which the Right is completely ignorant, is how to build the major league bench strength that comes from a solid farm team structure. Politics is cumulative: the candidate running for dogcatcher shakes hands, kisses babies and networks to line up donors; a term or two later the process is repeated as he runs for city council; a term there, and it’s on to the county commission, then to state representative, then to state senator, then House of Reps, then Senate, then….
Faltering at any step is regrettable, but meaningless because there is a medium-to-large group of candidates with potential for the next office up in the process at all times; Fred hits the wall at county commission, so what, Harry will make it to state rep and Sally is headed to Congress. There’s more randomness than immediately obvious, but lunar eclipse frequencies can lead to Obamas. And, with enough control over enough lower layers, even the random Obama is not necessary to achieve results; the foundation holds up the floors, the top floor keeps the ones below dry. The roof shingles can wait because it doesn’t rain every day.
Focus can be on the process or one can focus on the individual. One of those delivers positive results ocasionally, the other delivers something each cycle. For those who see A Conspiracy, it’s not, but simply a product of the hive mind. That doesn’t mean there is zero behind-the-scenes legerdemain going on, financial or otherwise, but parallel thought processes drive parallel behaviors that can easily produce parallel results. Put enough amphibians in a steadily warming pot and you’ll eventually have frog legs for dinner.
Unlike some ’80s movies, “not playing the game” is not the path to winning.
On May 6, 2019 at 11:39 am, Towser said:
On the “farm system” I agree with NOSMO, however I’m convinced the controllers enjoy a firm hold on both sides of the “two-party” system. While control of local figures may be minimal, those who run the parties prefer short leashes. Add to this the natural tendency for political types to control and we have a solid recipe for slamming the lid on anyone audacious enough to ask for more pudding or a tad bit of liberty.
One personal example is when I was graciously allowed a zoning variance for a 4 ft picket fence instead of a 3 1/2 ft fence as allowed by then current zoning regulations so our dogs couldn’t leap over it. However I was told in no uncertain terms the fence had to be a picket fence because the town “had the right” to drive by to see what we were doing on “my” property. No, this wasn’t downtown urbia, this was a small town in a very conservative rural county. Gun controllers are controllers focused on guns. Once guns are in control, they will look for other things to control. They never stop controlling.
On May 6, 2019 at 7:36 pm, Fred said:
Nosmo,
I don’t think that “the Right is completely ignorant”. I think that the Right is completely in on it.