Bamboozler asks: We all like to say we need more and better Dems and I could not agree more. But how to do it in the corporatocracy we call Delaware?
It is a great question. My initial reaction is that the most effective strategy must be two-pronged.
1) Run better Democrats in every race, for every seat, at every level of government. From school board to city council, county council, state rep, state sen, & statewide. That means a lot of primaries and a lot of losses along the way, but a steady supply of right-thinking Democrats will keep the GOP pinned down, and hold the incumbents accountable. Trump was great for candidate recruitment, but we can’t continue to outsource that. Keeping the candidate pipeline full will take money and organization. It will also take people like me and you finally getting off our asses and running for seats on our local school boards, city councils, and county councils. With my literary output here, I’m about as unelectable as anyone and yet allowing a Republican to run unopposed or a corporatocracy democrat to go unprimaried for a seat in my district is worse than a loss. Be the change you want to see in the world and all that.
2) Once beachheads are created in these school boards, to city councils, county councils, across the state there must be continuing support for the newly elected to keep the corporatocracy from back-filling their ranks by recruiting the newbies. Unless you are as incorruptible as a John Kowalko, it must be very tough to hold the corporatocracy at arm’s length once elected. I can only imagine the pressure Laura Sturgeon must be feeling like now to compromise her values.
It is a very long term project, but doable.
