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The fight doesn't end at the ballot box, but it does start there. Everyone needs to vote. Vote in the primaries, vote in the general, vote in local elections, & vote in state & national elections. Make yourself heard, & organize.
This. I don't care if you love your local representatives. If they are ok running as a Republican, vote them out.
I wish there were non republicans running. Usually there's one person running, and they're generally republican. And no - I don't have the time to become a politician.
Yea I hear ya. That was the case in my old township. The same 2 people have been running it for two decades and I can't remember anyone ever challenging them. There are also two other positions that are always blank on the ballot. No idea if those positions are just vacant or someone wins via write-in. I haven't actually looked.
OTOH, maybe it doesn't need to take any time. Just put your name on the ballot as a Democrat. Don't campaign. If you're elected, you can do better than a Republican by just not showing up.
I'm not sure that's true - I mean, presumably some things have to happen for the position or else why have it? I guess in terms of being in a group of legislators that's less true, but town supervisor or dogcatcher or whatever - I'd get elected once, then when there's no one at the meetings or doing whatever needs to be done to IDK, plow the roads or something or no one answers a call to catch a dog - I'd not get elected again, so have I accomplished anything doing that? And I don't like to claim I'll do something and then just never do it, it's even worse to go in knowing I'm never going to do it, but I'd prefer no one to a Republican. Plus, then I become a public individual and lose a lot of privacy rights and am liable to get attack ads etc, even if I'm actually just a "straw candidate" to have a D on the ballot.