It’s time. Everyone agrees the DNC is a failure for numerous reasons. It’s time to stop bitching and figure out how to fix it.
How do we get people like Bernie, AOC and Jon Stewart in charge?
It’s time. Everyone agrees the DNC is a failure for numerous reasons. It’s time to stop bitching and figure out how to fix it.
How do we get people like Bernie, AOC and Jon Stewart in charge?
Get involved. Start local.
Local meetings are an eye opener into the bowels of the party. Lots of people show up trying to find a way to engage with the party. What they find tends to be people obsessed with raising money, people looking to wrangle large teams of volunteer block walkers, and people doing busy work that’s totally disconnected from the candidates or the other party offices.
The Democrats don’t function as a party. They function as a branded franchise.
This aligns with my experience. I tried to get involved and was met with near hostility from someone who is now a multiple times over failed candidate because I didn’t value things precisely as they did and wasn’t interested in just serving them.
To be clear I volunteered a TON for some candidates I have believed in. Including doing the grunt work, and had plenty to offer.
My biggest frustration with the party is in how it just evaporates the week after the election. I’d been an avid volunteer since 2006, and it felt like every two years I was starting over from ground zero. I could never find the “in” with party organizers, because it was all consultants attaching themselves to candidates, whipping up pools of volunteers, and then collapsing back into nothing at the end of the cycle.
During the off-seasons, district and county meetings were pretty empty. We had a city councilor who organized trash cleanups and other civic activities - which, that’s fine on its face but not political activity just unpaid janitorial work. We had mayors who would sit patiently through meetings, nodding and smiling and agreeing with everyone, and then did his own thing regardless of public sentiment.
Deeply enervating.
Same. My business is across the street from the former local Democrat headquarters. The week before the election there came to me and said they wanted to keep their lease going and asked if in exchange for me caring for the place i I got to use it as extra space. I own a local game shop and could use the area for larger Magic games, and for d&d. but the day after the election I showed up to work and their space was totally empty.
Yep. which shows you how concerned they are with the electorate when it’s not voting season.
No, just showing up without a defined purpose is just a blackhole of nothing. Either intentionally or accidentally the system has been set up to prevent normal people from getting past the local level.