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A few thoughts on candidates declaring their bid of office early: a thread
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There are a lot of folks throwing up tweets declaring candidacy for 2022âpretty much entirely as opposition to the big âvillainsâ or âheelsâ (to borrow the professional wrestling term) in Congress.
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These are, naturally, accompanied by links to their ActBlue pages and calls for âgrassrootsâ support to âdefeatâ said Heel (which I getâit costs ridiculous sums of money in our broken system to mount a campaign for federal office & you want to start as early as possible)
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First off, thereâs a lotta redistricting happening this yearâsome of these folks may not even be living in the same district as the Heel come Nov 2022. They might even get re-districted into one held by an incumbent D. Are you FOR your candidate or simply AGAINST the Heel?
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Secondly, the primaries arenât for months and months yet. The candidatesâ triumphant exhortations that they will âdefeat the Heel!â are kinda premature...thereâs their own partyâs primary to get through first and we donât know who all the players are yet and wonât for a while.
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Third, do you now who these candidates are? Iâm not talking Big Policy Issues yetâit tends to take a while to flesh those outâI just mean have you taken a moment to Google the background of someone youâre amplifying to see if you have values which align...
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...as a random hypothetical, could you be, oh, IDK, amplifying & supporting a former business partner of Erik Prince (mercenary and brother of Betsy DeVos)?
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Itâs also important to remember the Heels can afford to be the political lightning rod, the locus of the fight, the headline grabbers who pull everyoneâs attention away from the quieter politicians who are systematically dismantling our democracy.
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The Heels can afford to be bombastic because they typically come from districts gerrymandered to the point thereâs no losingâeven if theyâre on camera calling for the overthrow of the American government of which theyâre a part.
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Which is not to say we shouldnât fight for those seats and fight hardâevery seat matters. But it does mean we need to have a broader view; we need to look past the media sideshows and see where there are winnable districts held by the quietly evil.
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Iâm not telling you who to r/t or donate to, Iâm just asking you to take a sec to remember 1. itâs way early on the road to â22; 2. to vet the candidates you support (even casually); & 3. itâs not always the most flamboyant clowns that are doing the most damage to our nation.
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