2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: We done fucked up. [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)To run. To build your farm teams of city council and school board members now, to work your way up the political food chain, so that when you hit those magic ages, you're running for the house, then the senate, then the WH.
We've got too many 'old white guys' (and I'm turning into one of those) running everything. We need our own 'young guns', more young, fired-up politicians who can get their peers fired up over social media to contribute and vote for them. Young women, young men, young transgenders, young straight, young gay, young asian americans, native americans, black americans, hispanic americans, even armenian americans, greek americans, norwegian americans. Young Americans of every possible background and ethnicity, bringing their own unique experiences and life stories.
Enough of 90% of our leaders being old white wealthy male WASPs.
What do you need from us old farts? Our support, our money, such as it is. To set up scholarship programs to get you through college in poli-sci majors, and target the races and districts you'll be running in after graduation (or even before). To get you mentors to prepare you for how to run campaigns and what you'll do on those school boards and councils, to identify the resources you'll need to make sensible, evidence-based decisions, and allow for the easier transfer of well-written, successful legislation from city to city, state to state. (And to keep you in continuing education while you're in office, to deepen and broaden your skills, and to prepare you for higher office.)