There’s groups like Run for Something that recruit progressives to run for state and local office
A surprising number of potentially winnable seats are never contested. Let’s show up anywhere and everywhere to fight back
If you’re worried about Republicans messing with elections themselves, you also have the power to help there too by running for state and local offices. Elections - even for federal positions - are run by state and local officals not by the federal government
What’s surprising is that my comment wasn’t downvoted to hell.
Very much so, usually if you call out the idea that elections aren’t the end of change, people downvote and call you $BAD_COUNTRY’s shills.
I think trying to approach change from every avenue is the best way forward
Politics frankly won’t change much in the next 4 years unless a bunch of progressives and liberals move to every purple state from the deep blue and deep red states. I still have some faith in newer generations not being as right leaning, but it would take decades for younger generations to vote at the scale of Baby Boomers and Gen X.
Plus Federated spaces need to grow more as well if we want to try to prevent misinformation from spreading as much as we see in the privately owned social media companies.
I believe there needs to be a push to change the voting system away from First Past the Post voting. As this is the main thing that keeps us in this mess of a two party system. The change needs to happen through grassroots organizing at the local election level all the way up to the state level to be successful in passing an alternative voting system in each state. Alaska and Maine both have already moved away from First Past the Post voting, so it is possible to do.