I mean there was nothing technically stopping the left from forming a voting block, using it’s funding to expand to unserved areas, using its platforms to coordinate and refocusing away from charities to the same community orgs the right built.

:cia: ? I can think of several times when left-leaning people were imagining new ways of creating community and relating to each other. They are frequently, brutally suppressed by the same type of people who would high-five these protesters right here.

Don’t :the-pigs: spend tons of resources surveilling, sabotaging, infiltrating and recuperating left-leaning movements? I think that represents a barrier.