On the eve of this election, there's something I need your help to understand

[jeff47]

10. The problems will still be around on Wednesday.

And the fix is for us to get involved in every damn election. Especially local elections.

Don't like the choices on your general election ballot? Well, turnout in the primary elections was around 20%. You want better candidates in November, you have to show up in the spring.

And those "boring" local elections are the pool of candidates for higher office. If you want better candidates for President, we need better Governors and Senators. If you want better Governors and Senators, then we need better House members and state senators. If you want those to be better, then we need better state house members and local executives. And so on down the line to those boring school boards, city/county/town councils, and so on.

The way we actually stand for these things instead of talking about standing for them is to work from the bottom-up, and especially in the primaries. Hell, we need to actually run in those "boring" local elections.

It's going to take a while to do this. So waiting a week before going back to complaining about the top of the potential 2016 ticket isn't gonna do much.