"Poor people are not ignorant-as you imply- and they do not need anyone to explain politics or power to them."

An interesting trap you try to set here. A bit like saying "All teachers are pretentious and patronizing because they think their students are ignorant." Nice try. If any teaching occurs in the course of community organizing, it is because an organizer is responding to a need presented by the community. Seminars and courses on power are offered, attendance is voluntary, and typically, community members go on to teach the classes themselves. Remember, it's the organizing, not the education, that is paramount. The real presumption of the organizer is that he/she is ignorant himself/herself of a community's needs, and must work assiduously to cultivate relationships with individuals within a community to understand and relate to it.

We all receive lessons throughout our lives about what power is and how it is wielded. This universality of this informal education diverges when one considers the socio-economics of a particular group. The poorer the community, the less likely that group is to be personally exposed to the tools (money, connections) of power wielded by middle- and upper-class communities. Underexposure to a subject or aspect of a subject can lead to lack of understanding--like you and community organizing for example. This may be ignorance, but ignorance does not always, and usually doesn't, mean a lack of intelligence (the implication I gather you were trying to foist on me).*

"But like people rich or poor, there can be someone paid to manipulate them to "understand" politics a certain way and vote a certain way - the community organizer."

What a broken record. The above, for the (sigh) third (fourth?) time, describes a political organizer, not a community organizer. Much as you may wish it, your pigheaded fealty to an erroneous denotation does not a new definition make.

*You know what? Thank you. Your words illuminate my point about ignorance and intelligence--for you see, they are a perfect example of that class of ignorance that DOES demonstrate a lack of intelligence--that is, ignorance that willfully disregards reason and substantiated judgment in favor of illogic and sophistry.