@anildash

Oh man, the way things are in the US right now I fear for his life... these kinds of videos only anger the establishment.

@anildash Yeah - it's a great piece of work.

I also admire the focus - he hasn't gotten mired in the ridiculous critiques people have been lobbing his way - instead, he stays focused on what he is for.

The realistic positivity is great, and we need more of it.

Hope, rooted in listening and doing the work.

@anildash the vibe took me back to an SF mayoral campaign, early 2000s, that i accidentally volunteered for when visiting friends there, doing GIS stuff. Local DA-type named Matt Gonzalez, ran against Gavin Newsom, who'd shipped in Clinton, the party machine was so strongly behind

Remember being amazed by the energy and groundwork behind the Gonzalez campaign. Candidate was pure, too, lived in a rented flatshare. California's trajectory missed a big moment!

@anildash Is .. is this *hope* I feel?

He's incredible. I hope he inspires a hundred more of him.

@anildash this is the kind of thing that we need everywhere!

In our city, we formed a coalition of citizens working to steer and suggest what City Hall needs to do to be more transparent, more accountable, and communicate more clearly with citizens.

We're putting a lot of pressure on them right now and we have both a budget approval and commissioner elections this year.

We're non-partisan and willing to educate anybody who wants to come talk with us about what collaborative governance means.

We won't win at everything that we're trying to do, but there's a lot of energy for this kind of people-focused change right now. People want to make a positive difference and have a say in the place they live.

@anildash Very impressive

It gets harder now

Good luck, New York.

@anildash

The content is chefs kiss perfect.

But its purposefully amateurish film making? For the feel.

This is a list of dont do this examples (dont shoot an edit of someone starting to walk then talk).

Its cute right? Just a bunch of young people trying to be real politicians.

@anildash
Remember this every single time Democrats try to tell you that they have to move to the right to peel votes off of Republicans.

It's horse shit. It's always been horse shit and they know it. The problem is, this makes it much harder for them to pretend like they don't know it.

@anildash
Wasn't Obamas campaign like that? It's also a pretty well proven strategy, but a loooot of work which is why most candidates don't do it.

And don't get me wrong, I am glad they achieved the results they did AND think they are worth celebrating even when they are tried and proven and not innovative.

@anildash Harold Washington. Who shocked the Chicago Machine by beating Richie Daley and Jane Byrne. Harold wouldn't run until we registered hundreds of thousands of new voters - we did! And he announced.

I have been beating the drum for years - we can upend conventional political wisdom by turning out new voters. In 2024 the number of eligible non-voters exceeded the number that voted for Trump.

We win with disaffected Trump voters, new voters, and by not scolding our most loyal voters by telling us we lost because we needed to be nicer to racists, fascists, sexists, homophobes, transhaters, xenophobes, and the like.

@anildash

Having grown up in a society where parties speak of themselves as representatives of classes, economic interests, and/or provinces, or as big tents, it's really strange to listen such clear and up-front cadre partyism.

In my youth I studied marketing (a regret), and the way video spoke seemed to be closer to market campaign trying to find a way to sell a new sodapop on a saturated market.

I mean, it's not wrong, but shows how distant the politics there are from the people.