Hold Elected Officials Accountable For Poor Turnout-Stop Reflexive Bashing Of Left

Why are elected Democrats in safe seats who year after year do nothing to increase turnout, never or rarely   held accountable by the folks who go on & on about a small number of voters on the left who won’t vote for the Democratic Presidential nominee?

This isn't about ideological fights within the Democratic Party. That's not the point of the Houston Democracy Project. Those fights go on and on and we spiral closer to authoritarianism. But Twitter influencers and Democratic establishment folks never stop blaming the left. There is a lot of blame to go around for poor turnout. I promise it was not the left that caused the less than 2% turnout here in Harris County in the recent HCAD election.  

​Saying the same things over and over & doing the same things over and over is not going to address poor turnout. Facing an authoritarian threat, it's a mistake to fail to hold account elected officials who have prospered under the systems that are bringing such outcomes. The ecosystem of low turnout, gerrymandering and special interest funding that sustains elected officials, does not sustain  democracy.

We don't need to curry the favor of elected officials or be friends with them. We need them to show up for us and we need to see clearly where the issues are when it comes to bad turnout at the polls.     

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