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Get involved and become a precinct committee person! They vote on the state committee persons, which vote on the national committee persons, which write the parties platform (which then gets ignored by the parties leaders). Most areas are hurting for people and you can win at least on the PC level by default. I made it to state committee person with barely any effort!
Or you can just sit and complain that the party is out of touch.
That's a very privileged take.
Millions of people lack the time, energy, and sometimes health required to do all or indeed any of that.
Demanding that those who can't don't exercise their right to dissent is discriminative.
We've gone from "if you don't vote you have no right to complain" to "if you don't dedicate time to running for office in matter how reactionary your area is, you have no right to complain."
There is always more things you can do that are better for your cause than complaining to random people. You have the right to complain, but you do not have the right for that to magically be effective.
Eventually it's going to be "if you're not at least a second term member of Congress, you have no right to complain"
I was in the hospital for 3 weeks straight the first time I was appointed to a PC. All it took was going to one meeting and signing a form. If you don't have the time, energy, and health to write your name one time, maybe you shouldn't be writing the party platform.
Sounds kinda scammy. Are you sure they didn't sell you a timeshare? 😛
It's an unpaid volunteer position with a fancy title. At least a time share has some utility.
May I please have rent and food money since I will be needing to stop working to start campaigning for local officies? Can I also now have money for different healthcare that is tied to work?
I'll happily give you links to donate if you put your money where your mouth is, I've been wanting to run for office in my deep red community. No guarantees they'd vote for a queer disabled leftist however.
To become a appointed PC, you have to go to one democratic party meeting after normal working hours and fill out a form. That is it - I was in the hospital over the course of 3 weeks when I first was appointed. No election necessary - and I'm sure your rural red community would be happy to have you just as mine did with me. The higher levels differ from state to state, but the state committee was just one 2 hour zoom meeting every 4 months for me.