Comment Rescue – more and better De Dems, but how?
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.
Can we start with Pete Scwartzkopf? He’s the epitome of a DINO and yet another State Police authoritarian. Flushing that turd would put a smile on every progressive face in this state.
This is insulting & not classy. I agree with it in the strongest terms. But it’s offensive and in poor taste.
I hope the most sensitive of our friends never see this.
What about this part, Mr. Big Talk?
“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.”
Pete doesn’t blog for the site. You can insult politicians all you want.
You’re misremembering history. That’s not classy. I’m offended.
“You’re misremembering history.”
Doesn’t everybody?
Sometimes, but not usually after only 10 days.
I didn’t insult a contributor on this site. I didn’t insult a contributor to another site.
I insulted someone using non profit funding streams to argue against a living wage.
That offended person 2 which in turn upset person 3. It was all quite sad.
I always strive for an accurate record!
My response was meant as a joke, but if you want to adjudicate this in public, it’ll have to wait til later.
You might want to check in with person 2 or 3 (not sure which) on whether you insulted them. Because you’d get a different take than your own.
Sometimes your insults leave collateral damage.
Hahaha. I made a vague reference (inside joke) that you decided to engage with
Persons 2 and 3 were offended that I insulted the original person and didn’t abide by their command to stop. Not the same thing.
Also, persons 2 & 3 don’t speak to me! Can’t ask, sadly, which is cool with me.
You have to have clean nonpartisan redistricting.
Double dipping must be eliminated.
Pete has the upper hand in redistricting.
I’m working on it.
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