The other night, I did something I hadn’t done in a longtime — I went to my local town council meeting. Before the meeting, I had been outside flyering with fellow South Jersey Progressive Democrats. We hit a bunch of local council meetings over the course of a few days, asking people to join us in advocating for a fair US Senate endorsement process.
In Collingswood, the flyering was a bust because no one, I learned, goes to these meetings. Since I was outside flyering, I went in. It would have felt irresponsible not to, I thought, a bad citizen move.