Message to my fellow Kossacks and angry progressives everywhere:
Everyone who posts on this site hopes that their words will lead to some sort of action, such as stopping legislative nonsense or inspiring like-minded people to volunteer/donate to a campaign or cause. If nothing else, we can say that we at least shine a spotlight on evil politicians trying to take our rights away. It’s very easy these days to get decent people riled up and angry: the right wing is relentless in their pursuit of undoing decades of American progress.
Yet through all of the attacks on our rights and liberties, we’ve been waiting for the Democratic Party to step up, to organize, and to fight.
Well, we've waited long enough.
I know you’ve thought about it. Guess what? It’s time. I want you to run.
I don’t care if it’s for school board, city council, state senator, or even precinct delegate for the local Democratic Party. We need you. NOW.
Qualifications? Are you serious? I have a school board member that argues dinosaurs and people co-existed. My idiot representative is a kid who tried to argue that driveway gun ranges in crowded neighborhoods were a good idea. I think if there’s one thing this presidential campaign has proven is that no one gives a rat’s ass about “qualifications”.
Your qualification is that you will actually fight for the people you represent—if only every constituent was as lucky to have you.
The GOP sucks at governing, which should come as no surprise since their entire philosophy is to destroy government in favor of some Middle Ages oligarchy. What they are good at—very good at—is winning elections. The key factor that conservatives have that we don’t is presence. It’s absolutely criminal that there were hundreds of races with no Democratic presence. Do you think this is ever a problem with the GOP? No. They always find someone to run—even if its a nutjob. And sometimes those nutjobs win.
Where I used to live in Central Florida, we had a right-wing state legislative candidate who ran EVERY freaking time for years. People thought he was a joke. He was, until 2010—when the SOB actually won. Now he, along with Rick Scott, Pam Bondi, and countless other unqualified certifiable nuts, have turned Florida into the lawless, dangerous, green-algae sewer that we all know and love.
One of the most anti-American tactics the republicans have succeeded at is making government so dysfunctional that this new generation, which leans left, wants nothing to do with it. There was even a study featured in Time (“Running From Office”) about millennial disengagement, which the Republicans hope will only worsen with their savior and new “king,” Cheeto Jesus.
Run this year. If the post you want is in 2018, even better to start now. Start gathering the signatures you need and building your team. How bad do things need to get to take action?
Let us hear about it. Worst case scenario is that you’ll have gotten involved: articulated our battle to people who otherwise might never have gotten engaged—and have a hell of a story to tell.