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Does solicitation include political lobbying?
by CameronNemo 3y ago
Does solicitation include political lobbying?
- baseballdork 3y agoYes
- CameronNemo 3y agoSolicitation is the act of offering, or attempting to purchase, goods and/or services. Can you explain how talking to my neighbors about important social issues falls under that criteria?
- shadowgovt 3y agoNo, because if you're going to try and start that conversation I'm not going to answer the door. ;)
- CameronNemo 3y agoYou sound like a pleasant person to be around. /s
- lazide 3y agoA neighbor talking to their neighbors about actual important political issues isn’t typically what people don’t like. People they don’t know trying to convince them they should care about a political issue they don’t care about or they are terrible and bad people is what people don’t like. It’s usually the second one, even if someone thinks it’s the first one.
- CameronNemo 3y agoSo you only want to talk to neighbors you already know? Isn't that a bit insular? I think if you want to live in a community, you have to be open to having conversations with your coinhabitants about polemic issues. Anything less is unkind. Regardless, persistent lobbying from a stranger is no more solicitation than softer lobbying from a friend.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoIn practice, this is rarely a problem. The civically inactive tend to congregate; communities with a strong civic sense, on the other hand, understand why organization is important. (TL; DR If you get mad about neighbors, including those you don't know, trying to talk to you about issues, you're the root cause of what you might complain about your community.)
- lazide 3y agoNice try. I’d say this manipulative BS is the real root cause. People in battleground areas often have buses of activists brought in from neighboring states to do door to door canvassing. Among other things. Thanks for calling everyone who wants to be able to cast their vote without active harassment from people with no stake in their community or reputation to worry about first ‘the root of the problem’ though.
- CameronNemo 3y agoIf by battleground areas you mean swing states, then the national popular vote could reduce that cross-state migration and canvassing that we see so much of. Still, does someone in Georgia not have a stake in whether Florida lines their roads with radioactive agricultural waste? In our industrialized, globalized economy stakes reach much farther than a neighborhood or city level.
- lazide 3y agoClaiming that any discussion of that sort is ‘friendly neighborhood discussion’ is the height of disingenuous bullshit. Which is my point.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Claiming that any discussion of that sort is ‘friendly neighborhood discussion’ Bit of a straw man to quote something nobody in this thread said. Nobody said civic duty is champagne and French fries. Just that rejecting it has a cost, and the people who cause that cost have a tendency to congregate. That, in turn, frees up resources for the communities who bother organizing.
- cwkoss 3y agoI'd be willing to make a carve out for the candidates themselves or entirely uncompensated volunteers. Campaign staff are not welcome.
- WeylandYutani 3y agoDoes it include religious preaching? That would be an interesting case in the US. A country deeply steeped in God.