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nononom0use123 posted...

So continue to elect shitty officials who do nothing but follow the same agenda weve been arguing about for 40 years?

You literally need to have stances. You need to know why you're running. "I will make things better" is a goal. It's not a plan.

I've been a campaign manager in local races three times and the thing I kept having to tell people is that "I will listen" is not a policy. Eventually, you need to actually act on what you've heard.

Case in point: One of the candidates I coached was very idealistic and, like you, not politically engaged beyond headlines and very earnest. There was a proposal for a new Royal Farms in our area that was a terrible idea for a lot of reasons. I, and many key voters, were opposed to it. Another guy on the campaign, who was also not political, was in favor of it. Even within this one campaign, just to the campaign workers internally, the would-be politician couldn't say whether their vote would go for or against Royal Farms if they were in the office they were running for.