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[–]MarkTwainiac 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think conservative groups will have a better reach because they are religious.

Also, places of worship - plus the custom of attending church services at least once a week, and going to church during the week for other reasons too (such as child care, choir practice, prayer, Bible study groups, religious education, social groups...) - make them ideal places for political organizing.

It's no accident that the US civil rights movement was organized mostly in/through black churches, and that so many of its leaders past and present have been ministers like ML King, Ralph Abernathy, Jesse Jackson and Rev Al Sharpton.

[–]linda_senora 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I hadn't thought of that.

It makes perfect sense.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, it doe make perfect sense. And the organizing methods as well as the strategies and tactics used by the black US civil rights movement - and other successful movements - are well worth studying and "taking a a page from."