This third-way centrist ultimately loves counterproductive left wingnuts

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36. They will turn you down here.

I have never worked for the state party or ever considered it but I have friends that do and have and I have friends that are real, very active activists who the party will not, or I should say until now have not accepted even their time. I have had friends booted out because they don't toe the line. We have candidates the party will not help. None of these people are right of center. Most are left, not all that left and still the party seeks to rid themselves of them even when that means a Republican will fill a seat. Hopefully we are getting past that but it is a good part of the reason Kansas looks like it does now.

That being said, you can work for the candidates that the party leaves dangling in the wind and occasionally you can even get them elected if you work hard enough. You can work issues and you don't need the party to even give a shit about it. You CAN force the party to look at you and accept that you have made a large enough group to effect their lives.

I am a lefty lefty in Kansas. Nobody in this state party would ever accept me and that is fine, I actually prefer working outside the lines here. I have little respect for the way this party has acted here for the most part but have dear friends who are doing the work inside. I have little respect for the way the DNC has left even our very right of center party dangling in the breeze, left our state to become what it is now. It is not pretty yet we do not rate help from the Party.

I attended a caucus as a delegate. I will not tell you what happened there. I lost any interest in party politics that day.

Sometimes you can't change the party from within until you make something large enough they can't ignore it then you shine it in their eyes until they give up and let you in. Then the real fighting to stay relevant begins.

I am less active now than I was. I am tired. It is a very hard job to work in this state as a democrat but as a liberal it has been almost impossible. Still, I do things and I know things from both sides of the spectrum of the Democratic party here. Not lots, just enough to know it is still hard to change a party that does not accept change as a possibility or even as a requirement in spite of losing over and over and being decimated statewide.