The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all. Saikat Chakrabarti More Quotes by Saikat Chakrabarti More Quotes From Saikat Chakrabarti When you shoot for big stuff, you stay true to the movement. You fight unapologetically on the inside; that is a very, very powerful way to pass the radical solutions that are necessary to face the radical problems that you have. Saikat Chakrabarti faceproblemsfightyou You have to decide to create the society you want to create, and that's done through politics. Saikat Chakrabarti yousocietypoliticsdone The reality is, our problem isn't that more people are voting Republican than Democrat - our problem is most people who would vote Democrat aren't voting. Saikat Chakrabarti votevotingrealitypeople I like to show my cards and see people's reactions. Saikat Chakrabarti seelikecardspeople Yes, climate change is an existential threat, but there's also kind of this existential issue of why is it that as our society is progressing... things seem to be regressing and getting worse for a large number of people? Why is that happening? How do we fix that? Saikat Chakrabarti climate-changesocietychangepeople Progressives think the way to win is mobilizing and convince people to vote for something. Saikat Chakrabarti winthinkvotepeople I don't know if it's a uniquely American thing, but I associate it that way. People get excited by this idea of, 'Let's come together and defeat this huge enemy through innovation, by solving this crisis.' I think that's motivating and inspiring. Saikat Chakrabarti thinkinnovationtogetherpeople I am talking about the radical conservatives in the Democratic Party. That's who we need to counter. It's the same across any number of issues - pay-as-you-go, free college, 'Medicare for all.' These are all enormously popular in the party, but they don't pass because of the radical conservatives who are holding the party hostage. Saikat Chakrabarti i-amfreecollegetalking For background, Brand New Congress was created in the summer of 2016 with the goal of recruiting 400 candidates to run for Congress with a national campaign and a clear set of policies they would advocate for. It was an attempt to create, as per the name, a brand new Congress. Saikat Chakrabarti brandnamenewsummer It's not at all a secret that I was one of the co-founders of Brand New Congress, and we've never tried to hide our goals. Saikat Chakrabarti hidegoalsnewnever I co-managed AOC's campaign alongside Vigie Ramos Rios and also was the one that managed the launch of her initial campaign in 2017. Saikat Chakrabarti launchcampaignheralso It's fairly common for new members of Congress to hire their former campaign managers onto their official staff. Saikat Chakrabarti campaignnewcongresscommon I'm not a fan of people making up lies, and I do feel I owe it to people to know what the truth is. Saikat Chakrabarti feeltruth-istruthpeople We need new leaders, period. Saikat Chakrabarti leadersperiodneednew There's a whole pipeline for where people recruit current Hill staff from, and it's people who go through a kind of ideological training that's incorrect, I'd say, and so there's a lot of work to do, and Justice Democrats is trying to figure out where it fits. Saikat Chakrabarti trainingworkjusticepeople I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system. Saikat Chakrabarti personallysystemthinkpeople I think the Right did us a service calling Obama a socialist for eight years. It inoculated us. Saikat Chakrabarti usrightthinkservice People focus on the labels when they are not sure what they mean. What people call socialism these days is Eisenhower Republicanism! Saikat Chakrabarti socialismfocusmeanpeople What the Bernie campaign showed us was that you could out-raise a well-funded opponent with grassroots donations, and you could out-voter-contact them, too. Saikat Chakrabarti opponentcampaignusyou The power of Bernie Sanders was not only in his email list. The centers of power were local groups that formed on Facebook and Reddit. Saikat Chakrabarti facebookonlyemailpower
