Michael Moore’s Morning After To-Do List

1. Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.

Jon Schwarz: Donald Trump will be president, this is what we do next

4. We don’t need a third party, we just need a party. When and where are the next Democratic and Republican Party meetings in your neighborhood? You don’t know, because neither the Democrats nor Republicans are political parties in the historical sense. Mostly they just demand we send them money and then yell at us about voting every few years. While it has almost passed out of Americans’ living memory, parties used to have regular, local meetings where everyone got together, yammered about politics for a while, and then drank beer. Elections were the culmination of what parties did, not the starting point.

On the planet where I live, local political committees still do that. Schwarz needs to get out more.

Contrary to what Schwarz suggests, it is quite easy to find most local political committees, just spend some quality time with your favourite search engine and you can usually find their website. Most, like the Fairfax County Democratic Committee, put their calendars online.

I am seeing so many online calls for people to get active, coming from people who have clearly never served on a local political committee or talked to anyone who has.

Do you want to take over the Democratic party? Here is some advice from someone who, literally, wrote the book. Put the primary behind you. Yesterday’s opponent is today’s ally. Don’t introduce yourself as a Berniecrat. Introduce yourself as a Democrat. 2017 will be filled with races for the state legislature in Virginia, NJ, and Kentucky, as well as municipal races in NY, Connecticut, and many other places. Your job is to nominate good people and get them elected, not re-litigate the 2016 presidential primary.

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