Let’s talk about YOU this time. We’ll come back to why Comprehensive Democracy Reform is the only way to fix the damage being done by New Jersey’s unelected political party leaders, but let’s skip ahead to why YOU are so important in this campaign to fix New Jersey.
If you have an issue with our government that affects some part of life in New Jersey and it’s really important to you, what are your options to make change happen?
If the issue you’ve identified is supported by one of the two political parties, it might be relatively easy to bring it to their attention. They might agree with you and the issue you’ve raised might be fixed in due time.
Democracy reform isn’t complex but it affects both parties and the solutions reduce the ability of party leaders to control election outcomes and who you can vote for. In other words, fixing our democracy is going to be a lot harder!
But, why are YOU so important? YOU are important because only voters want to fix what is wrong with New Jersey’s election and political systems and so only voters can fix what is wrong with New Jersey’s election and political systems. The two legacy political parties won’t just give us back control of our democracy so we are going to have to fix this problem ourselves and that includes YOU.
The only way we can force change in New Jersey is through elections. As it is right now, only the party committees are organized enough to really control who gets elected. Some of us vote but voting in New Jersey is a sham exercise where winning candidates are determined by committee endorsements before the primary elections in districts that are intentionally designed by party-affiliated appointees so some always go red and some always go blue.
In order to make a government for New Jersey that we’d actually want, ALL of YOU out there have to VOTE and it has to be for candidates that support COMPREHENSIVE DEMOCRACY REFORM.
Don’t worry who those candidates are yet, except for a select few in our state legislature, they don’t exist. Trust me though, they’ll be there when we’re ready because we aren’t going away and they are going to come to find that supporting Comprehensive Democracy Reform will be good for their political careers!
Here’s an example of how easy it is for you to help make this happen. Type an email to a friend in New Jersey that says;
I thought you might like to know about this web site, www.PTTP.buzz
Then click SEND. Your friends will appreciate you turning them on to our campaign to make New Jersey better and I’ll make sure they get the information they need. Whatever you do, please don’t get into arguments with friends and/or family over this. Not everyone will get it, that’s fine, we will still recruit all of the help we’re going to need.
You can also share a link to www.PTTP.buzz on social media or make a TikTok telling your audience about the work you and the rest of us are doing! Find us on www.HiWEAVE.com and just say hi, ask a question, or tell us how easy it’s been to tell you friends/neighbors about our campaign to reform New Jersey’s democratic systems! Send us links to your social media posts so we can share them too! Encourage the people you speak with to SUBSCRIBE so they can receive every email as we send them.
YOU are important and I hope YOU want a better New Jersey as badly as I do. We just need to reach enough YOU’s and then we’ll have a huge US and with a huge US, WE can make this happen!
Want to hear something stupid? The political community in New Jersey has a name for this horrible system of politics and elections that they’ve created, they call it “The Machine”. The Machine encourages corruption and makes sure we only get the government they want to give us instead of the government we want. Here’s a great article by Charlie Stiles with actual examples of machine politics enabling corruption. Here’s the link to the article;
In manipulating our election and political systems, the leaders of our two political parties have left us only one way to fight back; WE MUST JOIN TOGETHER IN SUPPORT OF CANDIDATES THAT WILL ACT TO PASS COMPREHENSIVE DEMOCRACY REFORM LEGISLATION!!
Thank you for reading. Please SUBSCRIBE if this message was forwarded to you. Please check out our EVENT dates to join us in-person to learn more about how Comprehensive Democracy Reform will transform politics and elections in New Jersey for the better!
Bart Cocchiola
Executive Director, NJ Coalition For Democracy Reform Inc
NOTE: Regarding www.HiWEAVE.com, it is a new take on social media with features that are intended to make the community more functional and friendly. It was started by Michael Schoeffler (RU ’90) and is based in Highland Park. NJCDR has no financial interest in the site and we aren’t being paid to host activity there. We’re just trying to up-vibe Mike’s new platform and hoping to help a New Jersey business to be successful! They are still testing the software and part of that requires posting offensive content to see how the site’s algorithms catch it so ignore anything unappealing that you might see.