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Liberal, not Leftist's avatar

If voters would stop phoning it in and instead run for PCO in their neighborhoods, politics would become bipartisan as it once was. Right now, of the 500,000 elected Precinct Committee Officer positions for each party nationwide, most are vacant for both parties. The fringe partisans like that because a small group of them can control everything. They appoint people to fill the vacancies to enrich their echo chamber. They're 2-year terms and the next time to register to run is Spring of 2024. The election is the 2024 Primary. Check your County Elections office and see when "filing week" is for the primary. Mark your calendar and then file your candidacy. Run, people, run.

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Randolph Carter's avatar

Sort of like "ideas, not people" - unfortunately I think most humans are hard-wired to want to join a side or find a champion (as a human, I am too). This would be a fantastic change in the way politics is discussed, but how can we get people to abandon their deep longing for team membership when addressing political questions?

I think diffusing "team membership" into non-political areas of life might be the solution, but with such a fractured culture and the ability to choose from ever more tailored options in almost every other sphere of life, politics remains an A or B proposal. Red and Blue are the last national cultural brands that people are sort of forced to identify into. And god I would prefer more 80s style soda wars to endless politics-adjacent culture wars.

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