Here in Wisconsin, it's time for political Party leadership and faithful to gather to decide who will lead them into battle in the upcoming election cycles. You too?
One of our primary Party's leaders is considered by many insiders to be an abject failure and is facing some serious challengers in next week's annual convention. And, as expected, the challengers are beginning to turn on one another to gain a foothold.
One of the candidates to lead their Party is being chastised by some of her peers because she just recently joined the Party. She hasn't paid years of dues and doesn't have the cred of those that have been dutifully paying their dues for decades.
Which might matter to the Party-faithful boomers in the room...but doesn't mean shit to the audience the Party needs to be targeting. That would be the generation that believes paying dues is stupid and no more qualifies you for consideration for leadership than having walked a 5K.
She says she didn't know that paying dues to the Party was a prerequisite...and while Party lifers chortle at the thought, it's certainly possible. Who told this volunteer that she wasn't qualified to pass lit or do doors over the past few elections unless she wrote a check to the Holy Party? I've offered to help candidates lots of times and have NEVER been asked to join a Party.
Which is why the local Party system is on the verge of collapse (or, at the least, irrelevance). Too many old schoolers that don't understand how and why today's new recruits volunteer to be activists and how the next generation of voters thinks, moves and acts.
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