10-16-2018, 08:13 PM
(10-16-2018, 07:23 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: I thought you weren't a Democrat??
I've become a part of my local Democratic committee. I'm liberal, on the geo-political spectrum I am a social democrat, I have just always had a lot of problems with the party. Still do, quite honestly. But I had some people that worked hard to get me involved. Seriously, months of trying to talk me into it. So I folded a couple of months ago and am now officially a part of the machine to elect Democrats in this area.
I won't go into too many details, but a main reason for this was because of the way the local committee was reorganizing. I will work with the local committee because I like the way we are headed. But the state and national committees don't have any loyalty from me. Of course, I'm a realist and know that the only real way to make anything change is from within. Third-party and independent candidates with our first-past-the-post, winner-take-all system are wasted votes beyond a certain level.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR