If it feels like someone is trying to make you think your vote will not count

[jeff47]

95. Yes. We failed.

We* failed to elect liberal Democrats for about 30 years now. We didn't bother showing up at primaries. We thought "get out the vote" was too much of a bother. We didn't bother caring about "boring" elections like school board or city council.

Guess where we get the "next generation" of candidates? School board, city council and other "boring" races. When we didn't show up, we didn't get liberals into those positions. So the pool of candidates are all further to the right than we'd like, resulting in campaigns and politicians further to the right than we'd like. And no "stronger fight back by the Democrats".

The top of the ticket tells you where the party is. The bottom of the ticket tells you where the party is going. We need to bust our asses at the bottom of the ticket so that we go in the right direction instead of lamenting that the top of the ticket isn't what we want.

It took our party 30 years to get here. It's going to take several elections to get somewhere else. If you can't find inspiration at the top of the ticket, you can find it at the bottom. And we need your help down there.

(*Note that "We" is not literal here. It isn't each and every individual, it is the cumulative effect of all of us.)