Lots of ways to get involved besides running for office. Most municipalities have a slew of boards, commissions, and opportunities for input-surveys, public comments, etc. Our meetings are broadcast and stored online even if you can't be there in person. All elected officials have emails and phone numbers and most have social media accou…
Lots of ways to get involved besides running for office. Most municipalities have a slew of boards, commissions, and opportunities for input-surveys, public comments, etc. Our meetings are broadcast and stored online even if you can't be there in person. All elected officials have emails and phone numbers and most have social media accounts. The left is very active in all of the above. Conservatives, eh, not so much. There is a small active group of us but not nearly enough and not sure how to motivate them. The usual excuses: jobs, family, etc. We all have those too. Priorities! I want to say: turn off the TV, quit spending hours a day on FB and get out and DO something. Giving up is easy, paddling upstream is hard.
Well, I have accomplished one of those: turning off the TV. The only thing our TV is used for is to cast The Chosen or American Thought Leaders' interviews, or for watching an occasional movie. We have a newly elected conservative school board member and I've been thinking I need to contact him to find out if our semi-rural schools have the LBGTQ books. I know the county next door does and their libraries are filled with them, as well. We have a new conservative sheriff. You're right, we need to do what we can. I'm a 70 year old grandmother and another thing I am doing is helping teach tenth grade girls at my church. Let's keep up the good work!
Good for you! I tell people: how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Too many think if they can't eat the elephant in one sitting/election cycle, they get discouraged and give up. If we all can do a little, it adds up to a lot!!
Lots of ways to get involved besides running for office. Most municipalities have a slew of boards, commissions, and opportunities for input-surveys, public comments, etc. Our meetings are broadcast and stored online even if you can't be there in person. All elected officials have emails and phone numbers and most have social media accounts. The left is very active in all of the above. Conservatives, eh, not so much. There is a small active group of us but not nearly enough and not sure how to motivate them. The usual excuses: jobs, family, etc. We all have those too. Priorities! I want to say: turn off the TV, quit spending hours a day on FB and get out and DO something. Giving up is easy, paddling upstream is hard.
Well, I have accomplished one of those: turning off the TV. The only thing our TV is used for is to cast The Chosen or American Thought Leaders' interviews, or for watching an occasional movie. We have a newly elected conservative school board member and I've been thinking I need to contact him to find out if our semi-rural schools have the LBGTQ books. I know the county next door does and their libraries are filled with them, as well. We have a new conservative sheriff. You're right, we need to do what we can. I'm a 70 year old grandmother and another thing I am doing is helping teach tenth grade girls at my church. Let's keep up the good work!
Good for you! I tell people: how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Too many think if they can't eat the elephant in one sitting/election cycle, they get discouraged and give up. If we all can do a little, it adds up to a lot!!
Just like C&C multipliers! 😊