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@L1vY@mastodon.world greetings! Welcome! I like your name. It made me realize that I don't know who Mother Jones was. (I always confuse her with Brecht's Mother Courage.) I looked her up, and now I know. We could use someone like her or three. Our side hasn't had a media-savvy firebrand since... Gloria Steinem, maybe? And workers' rights has needed a champion or three for a while longer. I keep hoping Zooey Zephyr will be able to leverage her notoriety and the current trans refugee crisis to elevate herself to the national stage. She'd be a great voice for equity and workers' rights if she could get on the cable news/democratic podcast circuit. More than anything, I wish the most successful leftists lately, anarchists like Occupy Wall Street and the folks who created the CHAZ in Seattle would become more media savvy. Nobody listens to strident young men. They listen to families, like the planted interviewees at Tea Party rallies. And they listen to Leaders. The left needs leaders. Or at least orators like Mother Jones.