The problem where I am is that the only people who seem to be willing to do the actual work required are the ones who are currently the elected leaders of the local Democratic (DFL here) Party. A lot of them would dearly like to back off on all that work, and most are over 65 years old (like me). I'm a precinct chair, and have been for as long as I have wanted to be. I'm about to scale back my active participation, but I've been unable to find anyone who wants to take my place, despite it being a job with nothing to do most of the time. At the same time, the committees and boards of the party at all levels here have the same problem. Nobody seems to want the work those jobs entail.
The Party is ready and eager to find new people to fill leadership positions, but it's not easy to find people who have any desire at all to actually fill those positions, all of which do require some voluntary work to keep things running along.
In 2016, I tried my damnedest to encourage some of the younger Democrats in my precinct just to go to the first level convention after the caucuses. I got a full slate to sign up as delegates during the caucus meeting, but on the day of the convention, only four of the 14, showed up for the three hours the convention would take. Four. And those four were the same four people who showed up in 2004 and every convention thereafter.
Frankly, if younger people want to take over the Democratic Party, there has never been a better time to organize and do just that. As I slowly walk away from that work, which I've been doing wherever I lived for more than 50 years now, I walk away shaking my head at the lack of interest going forward.
C'mon folks! Please. Take over the Party, locally and up the line. It will be easy. We old geezers will hand it over to you gleefully.
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