It’s April Fool’s Day, a good day to remember that when you vote for Republicans, the joke’s on you. After all, Republicans have gone out of their way to demonstrate that they DGAF about you, your family, this country, the world. It’s a party of selfishness, greed, and cruelty.
What someone considers a joke or finds funny tells you a lot about them. Humor requires self-awareness, empathy, and an attempt at understanding, otherwise, it’s not a joke, it’s just someone being a jerk.
If you’re politically engaged at all you no doubt have been urged to run for office. In fact, we at The Guerrilla Politic have been shouting it from the rooftops for years.
But what if you don’t want to? What if the idea of running for office is about as appealing as a root canal? Should you just tune out and disengage? Of course not. In fact, just like a root canal, politics only gets worse when you ignore it. Like it or not, your community, your county, your state, and your country needs you.
It may not feel like it with all the COVID still going around, but it’s a new year! Time for new goals, life-changing resolutions, or maybe just surviving wave 5?...6?...infinity? of the pandemic with your sanity semi-intact. For those who’ve ever wanted to run for office, though–especially those of us who struggle with “imposter syndrome”–good news! 2022 is our year. Here’s why.