- give them money

- offer them a political advantage over their opponents

- build up enough grassroots support among their constituents that not supporting your positions would be effectively career suicide

The best organizations utilize all three.

> because logic just doesn't work for tech

is more than a little ironic to me. I suppose it's like people saying you can't 'out-logic' a judge through a technicality, or that the law does not mean they are Perfect Laws of Logic; they're designed to be interpreted by judges.

I admire the EFF though, and I support what they advocate for. I was going to say I'd like them to be more pragmatic, but I suppose their hardline opinions are most of the reason they exist as an advocacy organization.