Are You Younger than 50? Do You Have Political Ideas?

[MineralMan]

If so, are you considering actively running for office? No? Why not? Truly. Why not?

If you are posting your ideas here on DU, you're obviously interested in politics and are more informed that most people. Why not become the politics of the future?

I'm being dead serious here. I'm just a couple of months from being 80 years old. I've been politically active all my adult life. I never ran for any office, though. Instead, I joined the local Democratic Party organization wherever I lived and worked to get Democrats elected to offices of all types and at all levels. That was what I did. During that time, I saw many young people who wanted to be elected officials. I watched some of them succeed at that. I like to think I helped some of them along the way.

There are elected offices at every level of government. Someone runs and gets elected. There's no reason one of them might not be you. You can't become a member of Congress or a state legislator, though, until you have a track record in elected office. So, if you want to do that someday, start now and run for a local office. Get yourself known where you live. Keep trying until you win. Then, work like crazy to help the people who elected you get what they want. It's pretty simple, really. Start small and move up from there. As you go, you'll build name recognition and add people to your list of loyal supporters.

Or don't. That's certainly easier. If you don't, you can just continue to post in online forums about what should be done. There's no difficulty in finding somewhere to post your ideas. But, what you can do by doing that is quite limited.

At some point, you have to decide. The sooner you start, the younger you will be when you finally get elected to an office that has the potential to make real changes that make the world a better place.

Think about it. If you think you're up to it, jump in. Or don't. It's your decision.