In my opinion, part of what I think the message by liberals should’ve been for the last 10 years is not to just vote early and often, but to actually run for office. I can easily see how the critical deterioration of the average person’s mental health would make it challenging to reach this end. Our understanding of mental health still leaves so much to be desired
I’ve know some low level elected officials, and I think an aspect there might (especially w/r/t mental health) be how crushing taking your role seriously can be. Most campaigns I volunteered on lost, and those that made it burnt out pretty quickly. It’s easier to do nothing and not care, and financially beneficial to do evil.
One campaign we lost because the candidate got outed as a lesbian. Any form of queer identity guarantees that you can only run for one party, and that party just doesn’t win.
In my opinion, part of what I think the message by liberals should’ve been for the last 10 years is not to just vote early and often, but to actually run for office. I can easily see how the critical deterioration of the average person’s mental health would make it challenging to reach this end. Our understanding of mental health still leaves so much to be desired
I’ve know some low level elected officials, and I think an aspect there might (especially w/r/t mental health) be how crushing taking your role seriously can be. Most campaigns I volunteered on lost, and those that made it burnt out pretty quickly. It’s easier to do nothing and not care, and financially beneficial to do evil.
One campaign we lost because the candidate got outed as a lesbian. Any form of queer identity guarantees that you can only run for one party, and that party just doesn’t win.