> Focus on the Family built a quite powerful social movement through giving useful, mostly non-political life advice and then connecting it to tangentially related political issues.
That's how successful left-leaning political movements worked in the past too? Come for the food bank or housing advice, and then hear a bit about Marx (or whatever else the organisation is about) along the way?
> Focus on the Family built a quite powerful social movement through giving useful, mostly non-political life advice and then connecting it to tangentially related political issues.
That's how successful left-leaning political movements worked in the past too? Come for the food bank or housing advice, and then hear a bit about Marx (or whatever else the organisation is about) along the way?
So...they were the influencers of their day? Seems like a pretty straight throughline from James Dobson to Joe Rogan?