Here are some of the ways you can make a difference. You can get involved in a campaign. You can blog until your fingers ache. You can give money and time.
Well, here is once use of your time I think is important to anyone who really wants to start seeing some changes in the Democratic Party. Attend your precinct convention on Election Day. Put your name in the hat as a delegate for the county convention. Help draft proposals for the county convention.
Next step is attending your county convention and running as a delegate to the state convention. Help draft proposals to strengthen the party or defeat proposals you think weaken the party.
Your next step will be attend your State convention and do the same thing. Attend committee meetings. Propose resolutions and work to get stupid ones thrown out. Get involved in the process of getting a State Party Chairperson who will actually work to get Democrats elected.
Do not depend on the people who have always done things to get anything done. We have all seen what has happened to the Democratic Party in the past few years. Now is the time for some new blood and some new ideas to make the Democratic Party vital again. Time to let the party know that the middle of the road course they have been using is a bunch of crap. The Party of the People needs to be strong in their defense of civil rights, health care, education and quit sucking up to corporate America or the Repugnant Party.
The rules for this are probably different in each state. Please check with your county or state party and get involved.
i think you will like Albert’s front-page coming…swoosh…now.
Do I join as at at-large member of the CDC (California Democratic Club), even though I’m considering re-registering as “Decline to State”?
Do I try to work from within?
Of course, for the most part in California, I don’t have to worry about Democrat candidates who don’t completely mirror my views — there are no Bob Caseys that I know of. And if there were, I could simply refuse to support or endorse them, and make known my reasons why — in fact, that probably would be more effective than railing my displeasure to the folks in the Cafe. 🙂
I’ll need to do some thinking — the state CDC convention is coming up, and it’s just a short transit ride from where I live so I really have no reason not to go, other than my own hesistancy.
Thanks for posting this — highly recommended.
look at what the Deaniacs did with their disappointment and displeasure with the status quo. They didn’t take their ball and go home, the rammed Howard into the DNC chair.
Here, I’m preaching to the choir — maybe effective, but unsatisfying.
Getting involved I can point out why Candidate A is not an effective representative of the party, “electability” be damned, and why Candidate Z would be better even though we’d have to work harder.
I think I’m sold — just need to pay my $25 at-large (may eventually get involved with local group, just not sure yet) and my $210 conference fee, and tell the spouse I’m going out to play the weekend of the 24th… 🙂
yeah and look what he has done to the GLBT community. That is why I am getting even more involved.
I am not willing to give up on the party yet. I just think that the ones disappointed with the status quo have to get involved. I have a big mouth and also have been working to get a lot of true democrats involved in the part instead of the sell outs.
I’m not giving up yet either. After 2000 and 2004 when so many people were really considering moving out of the country I’d shout at them that they’re abandoning it without doing more.
I’m not ready to abandon this ship until I fight for it from within. Hopefully I can start as a committeeperson.
I too have a big mouth and I don’t like to mince my words. If I get elected, I’m gonna be yelling at a lot of people for at least four years.
Well, I have been doing that and plan to continue. For some reason, I am actually becoming respected in political circles here in Texas as they know I believe in what I am doing.
conviction goes a long way 🙂