Who else will we vote for?

My friend Laura recently wrote, “It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”

Raise your hand if you agree. Fair enough — you’re being realistic. But if we were in a large room full of common people representing the population of the world, every hand would be raised. Which means two things:

1. Somehow common culture has developed a stereotype that only the dishonest are voteable.
2. Common culture prefers candidates with common sense, common honesty and common decency.

The question is, when the common people turn out to vote in the next election, will there be any sensible candidates to vote for?

We need thousands of candidates worldwide.

In each country of the democratic world there are thousands of local offices. And those local offices possess more aggregate power than the oh-so-coveted federal positions.

The United States, for example, will be truly carbon neutral only when each of its states and protectorships are carbon neutral. The states, only when the counties are. And the counties will be carbon neutral only when the cites are and the cities must begin by reforming the districts. So, the US will be carbon neutral when all its districts are.

While federal legislation wanders the halls of congress, each of the levels of local government can be instituting specific change.

And specific change will only occur if the administrators of local government act.

We, the pragmatic generation, need to take action.

1. We need to refocus the public on the effect local administrators have on the common good.
2. We need to take responsibility and run for those local offices, to be the administrators enacting positive change.

The common people will vote for the common people — the decent, honest and pragmatic people. People will vote for us.