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and how does a sole candidate for mayor begin this 'grassroots campaign'. If you seriously start knocking on people's doors, you re most likely to end up dead o
by seydor 1y ago
and how does a sole candidate for mayor begin this 'grassroots campaign'. If you seriously start knocking on people's doors, you re most likely to end up dead or in prison in this day and age
- Bjartr 1y agoWhat makes that more true today than, say, 40 years ago?
- seydor 1y agoonline communication, city densities, very fast movement of people, immigration, inexistence of third spaces, helicopter parenting and so many other things
- lostlogin 1y ago> migration What’s special about this? Are we in a period of particularly high migration? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_migration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_migration
- inglor_cz 1y agoThe British NHS now provides translators for about 200 languages for their patients. How many would they need in 1950? Twenty at most, even fewer outside London.
- Dylan16807 1y agoIf we use the 1950 standard of need, then they don't need anywhere near 200 today either.
- baud147258 1y agoif you're a sole, unknown candidate, how do you expect to be elected? More seriously, you can still hand out leaflets, meet with locals in public, cold-calling the locals, sticking placards, talking to journalists working for a local publication (if available).
- greggsy 1y agoDon’t be ridiculous. Canvassing is not a dangerous activity.
- jopsen 1y ago> If you seriously start knocking on people's doors, you re most likely to end up dead or in prison in this day and age. Not in Europe, certainly not Denmark. As a kid I've knocked on many doors selling lottery tickets for a charity. I think pretty much all streets in the town was assigned to a route and one or two people. We still get people collecting from the red cross every year. For the record I hated knocking on doors, if my kid ever comes home with lottery tickets to sell on a given route, I'll buy then all and burn them before his mom makes me sell any! I'd honestly rather be a bad parent :)
- paxys 1y agoIf you are too scared to step out of your house and meet your neighbors because you think your city is a warzone then you are not the kind who should be running for office anyways.
- theshrike79 1y agoI'm not scared, I'm Finnish. I've lived in an apartment for a decade and I didn't know a single one of my neighbours. We all liked it that way.