But you didn’t make the jump to the next level. Political parties are like clubs. They exist in layers. There’s the truly casual members that pretty much just vote, there’s the more involved members who put in some legwork like working the phones, there’s the highly involved ones who show up important stuff like organizational meetings and state conventions, and then there’s the inner circle that runs things.
I have plenty of ideas, and they’re 100% accurate. You chose your level of involvement, which did NOT include being in on the decisions, and now you don’t like the decisions, and you think they should be listening to you. But when you had a chance to be in the group they listen to you decided you didn’t like the guy in charge and left. You got far enough in to know ahead of time they’d be making bad decisions, and didn’t stick around to try to change them. And now you insist it’s THEIR fault.
Whatever you gotta tell yourself Mr. Rove.