A sad thing happened after the 2012 election. Barack Obama had to cut the umbilical cord on the apparatus that got him reelected, Organizing for America. Except it wasn't sad, because they renamed to Organizing for Action and are basically the same group of people fulfilling the same backwards goals.
And boy, have they been busy.
A few weeks ago OFA started a brilliant campaign that was comprised of 1 parts public shaming, 1 parts unicorn trophies, and 2 parts creepy.
Prepare yourselves. Shit is about to get weird.
Yep, they are certainly out to change hearts and minds. They handed out over 100 of these bad-ass trophies to people that don't realize projects like Keystone XL will bring the end of humanity as we know it.
Speaking of the Keystone XL, Organizing For Action has a new memo out.
"Keystone Talking Points
Volunteers from Credo Action or other organizations may attend your planning session and want to demand that we work on the Keystone XL pipeline. Our mission is to change the conversation on climate and build support for action on climate change. We understand that there are groups and individuals who would like to work to influence the President and the State Department on a variety of environmental decisions, but OFA's plan is to do great organizing on building clean energy locally, turning up the heat on Congress and helping individuals and communities switch to clean energy. They are more than welcome to work with those groups, but we encourage all volunteers to be part of our work and the mission of changing the conversation on climate!
●Organizing for Action's mission is to support President Obama's agenda. The Keystone XL pipeline is still under review, and OFA supports and respects the process as it is currently underway.
● Our strategy is to work across the country at the grassroots level with members of congress to ensure supporters of climate action are on the front lines of this conversation, exposing deniers as extreme and dangerous, and ask those in the middle "what's your plan?"
● OFA will also work with local communities to switch to clean energy and promote the transition to renewable energy in cities and states nationwide.
● If people believe that Keystone XL is the primary fight to be engaged in, there are many groups who have taken a position, and we are happy to make suggestions about who volunteers might work with on that or other issues"
To summarize, Organizing for Action wants its tree-hugging radical leftist members to shut up about Keystone XL for awhile and change the conversation to, "Dang, that GOP sure is dangerous on climate change issues." Then, when Keystone XL is ultimately completed (and it will), there won't be quite as much butthurt to go around.
The irony, you could cut it with a wind turbine.
h/t @jimmyprinceton
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