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I ran for a city councilmember: 1) You opponents campaign manager will lie about their candidate without qualms. 2) Donors will give money to a scoundrel, as l
by hobotime 3y ago
I ran for a city councilmember:
1) You opponents campaign manager will lie about their candidate without qualms.
2) Donors will give money to a scoundrel, as long as they think the scoundrel will win.
3) Voters are actually good at picking up bullshit - in aggregate.
4) Rich white liberal female voters will not vote for a man.
5) Plenty of Black, Asian, and Immigrant voters are conservative, but many reflexively vote liberal.
6) Do it, even if you lose by a small amount like I did, you'll learn a lot and have a lot of fun
- SamPatt 3y agoThat doesn't sound even the tiniest bit fun. I'm genuinely curious about what made it fun, presumably something you didn't mention?
- hobotime 3y agoI grew a lot and made a lot of friends in so many communities, and I learned from immigrants about the values my great grandparents also had. I'm conservative and found that I have so much in common with so many people that I'm sort of pissed that our culture has done it's best to keep us apart.
- rdedev 3y agoThanks for this analysis. I feel like there is a big diconnect between what groups of people are assumed to be like vs what they actually do. Point 5 being the most apparent for me