The Democratic Party seems to have no earthly idea why it is so damn unpopular

[Mountain Mule]

36. I will say this

This is only my personal experience in one small corner of the country. I had never tried to become involved in party politics at the local level before the Traitor stole the election with the help of the Russians and the Electoral College. Sure I went out and did canvassing in previous elections, and I've done a number of activist type things on behalf of Americans with disabilities. But this year for the first time I went down to the local county Democrats to see if I could offer my services in a more sustained and cohesive manner. The first meeting I attended was all about electing new chairs and vice chairs for the various precincts and officers like the treasurer, etc. OK, fine. The second meeting I attended, it was announced that this was the time and place for the heads of the precincts and other elected officers of the local county democratic party committee to meet with one another and decide what priorities would be set for the next couple of months or so. Anyone else was welcome to sit in, but our participation was not encouraged. Now maybe that's the common practice everywhere. I wouldn't know. But it did turn me off. Here I was dying to help and it felt like my help was not wanted. Quite a few people left at the break and I was one of them.

In between those two meetings, the Montezuma County Alliance for Unity (largely a grassroots women's group with loose ties to the "official" dem party) staged a highly successful march in support of the Women's March in Washington The Alliance plans another march for "Women's Her Story" tomorrow, and I hoping to attend, but none of this has had more than token support by the "official" dem party.

Another interesting thing that I discovered at official meeting 2 was that in our overwhelmingly republican county, there was one precinct that had voted 100% for Clinton. There was not a single person who voted for the Traitor in that precinct. Guess who the people of that precinct were? The members of the Ute Mountain Ute Nation whose tribal boundaries run along the southern part of the county. I immediately thought of Standing Rock, yet there was not a single Ute in attendance as either a precinct head or just an interested observer like myself. I sat thru the remainder of the meeting until the break when I left, wondering why no one suggested making some sort of outreach attempt to tribal members. If we could engage the Utes, we would be running this county with the Utes leading the charge instead of sitting around in a little room in the town library, bemoaning the fact that all the county commissioners are republicans.

Now maybe my experience was atypical or maybe being so new, I didn't understand all the ins and outs of local party politics (I'm sure the latter was at least partly true). Still, it sure seemed to me that the local dems were ignoring the chance to get in on and become a part of several already strong grassroots movements. But what do I know?