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Sirota is notorious for blocking anyone who doesn’t kiss his a$$. I’m a nobody and he blocked me

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I gotta be honest, Sirota’s grating self righteousness turned me off a long time ago. I don’t know how many electoral victories he’s actively played a role in but I’d guess that number would be fairly low as his persona always seems to percolate as someone more interested in being “right” than in actually accomplishing even smaller things.

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I hear you, Ross, but don't you have better targets than Sirota? Why spend so much time on this? Why not just give him a call and talk it over, rather than make it a public spat between two notable (heroic, even) progressive spokespersons?

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Hate to be crass, Sirota blocked you, get over it.

You win elections in the mud and grime, hard relentless work and dollars. I guided and worked in numerous races, won some, lost some, learned along the way.

Today the line between journalist, blogger and Tweeter is blurred, anyone can join the fray, the marketplace determines readers, from a handful to untold 000s.

I find Jacobin a relic of the 30s, …and pseudo/newbie/self-appointed talking heads rarely influence…. the decision-makers are not “influenced” by rambling scribblers,

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I hate it when people knock on my door and I won't do it to anyone else, either.

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Great article

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Jun 2, 2022·edited Jun 2, 2022

I call this article the Arena Fallacy Fallacy. You are substituting some strawmen here. He was talking about literally volunteering on one brief occasion in one's entire life, which is something within the capabilities of the vast majority of us. Not "been part of the industry or follow it closely" or "of late" or the "proper number of volunteer hours."

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By the way, having done extensive volunteer work of this sort often still leaves the doer as clueless as anyone else as to politics, voting, policy, etc. It is far from a reliable way to achieve wisdom in the political realm. Doesn’t hurt though.

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