Governance With RCS: Big Actions Are Good For Us
This post is mostly for U.S. citizens. It is about positive actions a citizen may take.
If you are not an American citizen, this post could spark an interesting thought or two. Or lead you to explore this blog.
Go to a political party meeting. You can sit in on local party meetings and consider doing so as a learning experience for you. Look and listen. Listen. Check online, at your local Post Office, or Library for a meeting time and place.
Before you speak or even raise your hand at a meeting, learn the county and state party party by-laws for that party. You could even read a copy of Robert's Rules of Order. Then with few friends you can politely and powerfully take control of a meeting or of an entire local party. Party rules and by-laws can be found online. Read those rules and by-laws and get to know them.
Before you can complete all of the above you may be asked to join a party. Parties are usually easy to join and to unjoin.
Start preparing to run for office next year. Yes you. Run for school board, city council, county treasurer, U.S. Senate, member of Congress, governor, Secretary of State, or dog catcher. Dog catcher may no longer be an elective office in your county.
Run for office. All there is to it is to do it. Still it is good to do some learning along the way.
Make a tiny plan right now.
Rise up and do it. You could talk to a friend about it. It is often best to begin taking steps for yourself right now.
One year, definitely do run for precinct delegate. Every precinct in America elects delegates from each party. You may be selected to attend a national party convention to nominate the presidential candidate. Consider it a learning experience. Nomination may be a bigger deal than voting.
Thank you for reading.
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