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jeff47

(26,549 posts)
6. You do realize they didn't really save Tinkerbell by clapping, right?
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 05:29 PM
Jun 2014

This:

You want to win? Pick a popular position and fight for it. Get your message out to the American people. Let them know what bills you are pushing.

is like saying you can save Tinkerbell by clapping louder.

Changing the course of the country takes quite a while. It took conservatives 50 years to get us to this point. That can not be reversed in 6 years.

So yes, fight for change. But you must be aware that you are in for a long fight, and you will have setbacks along the way.

The most important things we can do are:
1) Show up for primary elections. We utterly fail at this.
2) Start recruiting/helping/encouraging people to run for local office.

Those people in local office become the pool of candidates for statewide office. Who then become the pool for federal office. And so on.

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