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Look up Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority.
Falwell was a TV preacher who figured out how to take over the GOP at the grass roots.
If the local GOP had an average attendance of twenty people at the monthly meeting, Falwell's folks would show up with fifty. It started out with them grabbing jobs like sheriff and county clerk, but it was a short step to Congressmembers and governors.
That would require 50+ people cooperate, which the left famously is extremely bad at.
Hierarchical leadership styles might have a tendency to lean towards authoritarianism, but we can't deny that they're effective at organizing large numbers or people efficiently.
The left tends to be allergic to even the idea of leadership, so it's harder for someone to say "I need fifty people at this meeting, and a hundred people at that one" because most people would just be like "You can't tell me what to do."
I know there's a tendency to think of leadership as a cushy do-nothing position of privilege, and bad leadership can certainly be like that, but examples of good leadership exist even though they're more rare in our current system.
Coordinating and delegating large groups of people is a job in its own right, even if they're not the ones swinging hammers and doing gruntwork. There needs to be a mind behind it all who sees the big picture and can follow a plan, receive reports and feedback and adjust as necessary. Leftists reallllly don't like that idea. They'd be more likely to say "Oh yeah, why don't you show up to all those meetings yourself?", ignoring the fact that one person can't be in multiple places at once, let alone participate as dozens of people at even one meeting.
If the left wants to take over the Democratic party the way maga took over the GOP, we need to learn how to do central coordination in order to organize organize ourselves for large-scale and efficient mobilization.
And we need to unify beyond everyone's individual pet issues and stop competing for relevance as if anyone's oppression is more important than anyone else's. We're all oppressed, it doesn't matter who's the most oppressed. We need to work together to fix this system, not fight each other over who gets the gold medal in the oppression olympics.
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