My hot take of the day is that nonprofit direct action community organizing is on its deathbed because it saw radical foundations dry up and decided to beg for scraps at the table of the Democratic Party instead of focusing on creating its own sustainable revenue streams
Most nonprofit "community organizing" these days is just half-assed shit that EDs cobble together to keep their c3s busy and above water between GOTV campaigns, and oh boy does it show
In blue cities they end up toothless and unable to fight for real change because doing so would mean potentially pissing off the Dem establishment and Dem-linked grantors they depend on to keep them afloat in the long term.
We're at a stage where "community organizing" mostly looks like either 1) charities making polite requests or 2) electoral operations dabbling in issue work from time to time, and that is not how you build grassroots power.
I really think the way forward is member dues-funded, staff-light direct action campaign work with some sideline c4 operations as a way to do carrot/stick leverage with politician targets.
The Dem GOTV $ route just leaves us powerless, electoralist operations have given us "left" politicians who take the celebrity we build for them without any real accountability.
Anyway, tl;dr we need labor unions except for our neighborhoods and without Taft-Hartley bullshit, thanks for coming to my nerd talk
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