Hope -- hope that others will do the same and work together to make a better future. The pantry will be there next weekend.

This is some Obama era shit. Hope isn't feeding people.

What if people like yourself ran for office so that it could become more effective (even if just locally) and then maybe become more popular?

I am finishing my PhD and getting the fuck out of this state. Once I have the means I will absolutely run for school board to keep a lib or a hog out of the spot and promote a Marxist indoctrination of our nation's youth.

That alone would be enough to get me off my couch to vote D.

Again, I'm not against voting for the lesser of two evils, but I am not going to spend my time advocating for an anti-choice, anti-trans, anti-gay hog. We have "progressives" who gain traction on a state wide basis and the Democratic party systematically kneecaps them every time because it is an old boys club.

Perfection is the enemy of progress.

I am not asking for perfection I am asking for the Democratic party to be a functional party, which it isn't despite having the governorship in my state.