Vote.
Also knock on doors, volunteer for campaingns.
Get involved locally. Go to meetings, work with others, make your own community safer, better, more organized. Know what's on school board agendas. Show up and comment.
Give politicians a reason to know what you want, and why they should care.
And if you want to laugh in my face, IDGAF. But while you're laughing, try to remember this:
We're in this situation because people on the other side spent 30-40 years doing that kind of thing.
Mike, I respect you but people have been voting, and will keep voting. But unless Republicans never win another election, eventually they’ll use the powers the Supreme Court is granting them. We need to take action to change the court. More specifically, elected Democrats need to take action.
And we know how to do that. You fall in love in the primaries and you fall in line in the generals. If you don't get the politicians you want, you try again next time and you hold the line. That's how the GOP got here over the last 45 years or so. You line up but never stop pushing.
Yes. But the other part of it is that the elected Democrats need to deliver. At first it’s just messaging and failed symbolic efforts like calling for impeachment of justices or an expansion of the court that can’t pass. But if the elected officials keep pushing, eventually you get change.
This is not a problem with not voting hard enough. It’s a problem with no activism beyond that, which is on all of us as citizens. But even more it is a failure of leadership in the Democratic Party.
