Disir
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so the definition is "not astroturfing"
i used dean as an example because he was really one of the first to work the web. that was grassroots or no.
how about obama in the beginning ? when he was going to take public campaign funding and close gitmo and stuff.. fix the oceans and tides... and so forth
what about Ass book and twitter??
Facebook accounts can be created simply for astroturfing (it's been done over and over again) and twitter accounts can be created, deleted or blocked and recreated. Good for 140 characters of crap. Propaganda is propaganda. What about Obama in the beginning? That wasn't grassroots. That was a strategy that was used by the Democrats. Astroturfing is the Tea Party was created and funded by the Kochs. It is the pretense of grass roots while being corporate funded or with money coming in from obscure places-like we saw with the faux privatized school advocates.
You underestimate the wariness and revulsion of one more round of people being bullshitted. You want to talk third party? Tell me what you can do, tell me what you can't do, tell me what your limitations/obstacles are, tell me what the plans are to circumvent or "negotiate" to still achieve anything on a given platform.
Even then it will still need to start locally and take years and maybe you get a cookie.
You keep thinking that I'm a Democrat because of my stance. I'm not. I'm a registered Independent.
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