A faithful reader has just sent me an e-mail message with a great idea. I am not sure how one does this, but could I, we, organize a petition or a social media effort to ask Bernie, should he not win the nomination [as I am sure he will not] to turn his campaign into a standing movement? We could give people the opportunity to pledge a monthly ten dollar donation.
How would we do this? Would it be a good idea? Can I do it? I do not do Twitter or SnapChat or even FaceBook or whatever the latest social media platform is, but it ought to be possible, yes?
Suggestions please.
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I've been waiting for the more cyber-hip (read: younger) to jump in, but I think your idea is very doable. Bernie's campaign already has a huge list of email addresses of supporters. An initial emailing (after the nomination process is over, of course), asking people to commit $, but also to become Facebook friends of the movement (so people can talk with each other), would cost nothing and would probably generate a large number of members. Would Bernie do it? Don't know. Tom
I see, on re-reading, that your question was really, "Can we generate a movement to encourage Bernie to lead the movement?" That would be a little more daunting, I think, but not impossible. It might involve spending some $ for on-line advertising to attract people to the Facebook page in the first place. Or maybe just a sympathetic figure with lots of Twitter followers, who'd be willing to ask his followers to re-tweet his message about joining the movement?
How much money are we talking about? I am clueless about these things.
I'm really out of my depth now.
You might try one of the online petition sites, then ask your readership to sign and promote it -- especially to any of the grassroots members of the Sanders campaign whom they might know.
This article mentions a few of these sites:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_petition
You probably are aware that Howard Dean started Dean for America, which coverted into Democracy for America after the nomination campaign of 2004. This is a parallel effort to that, so perhaps some effort to combine these rather than "split" would be indicated?
I'm guessing you would be less motivated to lobby for "Obama for America" -- yet a third "movement" -- to combine forces, if only because it is still too identified with one candidate. Movement building is hard :(
Wellstone Action: http://www.wellstone.org is working to put progressives into elected office.
Sanders has proved the it is a good time for progressives to seek office.
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