Are you tired of the Democratic Party running candidates that allow fracking, offshore drilling, cuts to public education, loopholes for corporate businesses and block anti-corruption and anti-citizens united measures?
Why do we always have a choice between an insider milktoast Democrat who has gained the party endorsement by calling in chips from electeds they worked for and party officials they've befriended instead of people who fight against the Republicans warring against women, workers, seniors, immigrants and the Earth herself?
Why don't we have people who even if they are in the minority in the House of Representatives and can't pass laws will get out in our communities fighting for public education, raising the minimum wage to a living wage and against fracking to name a few things?
Well for one, because the Party doesn't want to lose more than it wants to win. It wants the candidates with the deepest pockets and most money which means the ones who are beholding to special interests be it the Real Estate Association or Trial Lawyers or Prison Lobby.
Reason two is they hire the same small set of political consultants who usually have their own corporate clients on the side who they don't want to alienate. This is why you seldom see Democratic candidates with these high powered consultants coming out against the Big Oil industry or massively powerful prison lobby.
The only solution is if WE get involved in local politics and pick OUR own candidates not the insiders in the Party with their corporate consultants and deep ties to corporate interests.
Create local groups to find, recruit, train and support clean money, clean energy candidates and get them elected instead of the corporate insider candidates the Party picks to be legislators.
Create Active Citizenship Groups and hold Open Mic Nights to debate progressive issues and use that to recruit the most charismatic articulate people to run as clean money- clean energy candidates in the Democratic Party. Then hold more meetings to attract people from the Sierra Club to college Young Dems and other groups to join you. It will take time but a people powered Green & Clean movement that constantly invites in new voices and ideas to participate and takes the fight for independent thought and action inside of the Democratic Party can succeed!
They are not organizing us because they don't want us organized. They are not putting on PSAs on TV inviting us to vote because they don't want us to vote. They don't want to really win the Mid Terms. They want to have the GOP win so they can have two years of great opportunities to raise money against them leading up to when they coronate Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee.
Lets build a grassroots base of support for candidates in the mold of Senators Warren and Sanders.
Thanks!