Ben laid out the MGR and AFC model of citizen lobbying tonight. Swamp-dwellers and sold-out lobbyists hang out in St. Paul and in Washington all the time, cozying up to politicians until they own the politicians and the politicians own them, and big government, bureaucratic overreach, tyranny and turncoat, spineless politicians grow socialism and gun-grabbing, not liberty, gun freedom and capitalist choice and wealth.
The swamp-dwellers in St. Paul say the doors are doing nothing, and are never seen at the Capitol, so they are doing nothing but grabbing donor money to enrich themselves. To be in the swamp currying favor and being owned, sold-out, neutered and controlled by elitist insiders is lobbying from the top, and it does not work, and the masses and the public interests are ill-served, denied, even betrayed.
The Dorrs use social media, and spend 90% of their time out with the public, firing up the grassroots members, so they will be a vast army of lobbyists doing their own lobbying, reaching out to swamp-dwellers, a bottom-up grassroots army that is very effective and powerful.
This model of lobbying remains independent and militant and no-compromise, while the ones at the Capitol all the time become tired, pacified, owned and without teeth.
Imagine what I could do with supercitizens as anarchist-individuators if they mobilized by the thousands and millions, and set into motion the Dorr model of bottom-up mass lobbying as they masses speak with one, united voice to promote a legislative program that they have agreed upon.
Ben articulated this on his video tonight (3/4/19) in a few sentences.
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