Building Blocks

Question, do you know how to eat a whole elephant?

Answer, you take one bite at a time!

A free socially-aware citizen gazing out onto the vast wilds, dubbed our western liberal democratic civilization, may feel a certain sense of trepidation.

Bring that down to just our national two-party political structure and it is still a mammoth ordeal. So let us chop it down further to the state and local level. Let us come down all the way down to our cities, towns, districts, wards and precincts.

Let us eat the elephant one cell at a time.

Where does one begin? The municipal party committee is the starting point for a socially responsible citizen. If that municipality is still just too great to tackle, go down to the ward and precinct level - hell, go down to the neighborhood association!

Sometimes, I think that the general public does not understand that this society is steered from the bottom up more than from the top down.

These small cells come together to form the organs of the beast of our national political parties.

Democrats and Republicans have respective committees that can either bless or damn a potential candidate'’s campaign. This is the real primary, winning the endorsements of those anonymous and select members.

How do these people get there in the first place? They are voted on by fellow registered party members during the primary or general elections. These are the names of the people way down the ballot.

These are the names that you have never heard of and are either picked randomly or not at all. A person that can get just a few hundred or so to vote for them has a very good chance of winning a seat.

You do not need to be famous or an academic - just a voting-eligible citizen.

We need the right people in those seats and not the usual power brokers. With the filing dates closing fast, and if you are not already running for office, I urge you to get yourself or someone you know on those ballots.