Can we talk about the POTUS?

"Stand with me, work with me, let's finish what we started" -President Barack Obama

This place is tired. There has been a lot of attention placed on Wisconsin in the past couple years. Politics as usual is a violent affair. (Not physically violent, but messy and tumultuous.) Tammy Baldwin spoke on this more eloquently and with more authority than I ever could. 

   The problem is people see politics as a one off thing. Something they get involved in once every few years, then put away until the next cycle. Something that they don't have a responsibility to shape every year,  every month, every week, every day if they can. Yes, they have responsibilities to attend to otherwise. And yes, those responsibilities are draining. That's why people like me exist. I'm here to fill in the gaps. I'm here to give them the information and empower to make the most effective change the most efficiently.

   And that's the point of the Democratic Party. I think it says a lot when the President stands at a podium accepting his nomination and says that all his accomplishments, everything that people have lauded him for the past two days *we* did. For him to stand up and say to the American people that "you did this" is incredible. And it's a brilliant counterpoint to the GOP's motto of "we built this."

   At the end of the day the people in Washington, the delegates, the people screaming "we built this" are a minority. An inclusive message is vital to winning this November.

I met a man last night. He moved to Wisconsin a while ago and has been feeling silenced and like he couldn't get involved. It was awesome to be able to provide him an outlet, a chance to get involved. This election will be won by people getting out, by people taking control of their community. This election will be won by the people who are the more fired up and ready to go.