If there's anything that illustrated the hollowness of the Democratic Party as an effective opposition for me, it's this.
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@ciggysmokebringer @mloxton Honestly, I wish more of the principled dems would get in at the primaries.
My local one had only 7% participation. So that's 7% of the party getting in on picking who the candidate in the fall is. Which yeah, great way to end up with a great moat between primary voters and general voters in what they want.
@squishymage42 @ciggysmokebringer @mloxton I was a member of a small political discussion group, about 20 of us. We decided to pick local candidates in the primaries and support them. We chose the leftier ones, and every one we supported won. Big swing left in a state with a lot of DINOs. That's how you do it, not by snarking at small-donor fundraising.
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@squishymage42 @ciggysmokebringer @mloxton I was a member of a small political discussion group, about 20 of us. We decided to pick local candidates in the primaries and support them. We chose the leftier ones, and every one we supported won. Big swing left in a state with a lot of DINOs. That's how you do it, not by snarking at small-donor fundraising.
@jhavok @ciggysmokebringer @mloxton And hey, when you get small local races and experience and name recognition behind someone and THEN add that small donor fundraising, you get cool candidates.
(But leadership sticking around way too long and basically throttling any new growth in downticket races is a problem in a LOT OF PLACES not just national)
