Uh. Because there are never 535 congressional seats*1 up for election at the same time.
So either:
1) you don’t know this.
(That is cause for some concern and certainly makes me wonder
if you could even possibly have the political acumen to try such a stunt*2)
--- or ---
2) you think I don’t know this.
(That is cause for even greater concern.)
So if you will admit that you have neither the time nor resources to even try something so pointless (besides the fact that you have
probably missed every filing deadline there is) Why don’t you try something that you could do and that could make a real change?
Start something new.
Maybe it is a people’s Congress or a new progressive party or simply a watchdog group. Maybe just the first country-wide politically
progressive flash mob. Yeah, I kinda like that. Start a mob.
Recruit 4,350 people (10 folks in each of the 435 districts)
who are each committed to Bernie’s Agenda and have two goals:
1- recruit 10 new people to volunteer (one or two every quarter until 2018)
and
2-rewrite the federal budget that you can all agree on by consensus
(then make every candidate answer why they will or won’t support it in the 2018
elections)
(If you honestly think you could do all that in in less than 6 months, I’ll send you 100 dollars.)
*1 The House’s 435 seats are up for election every 2 years. Only one-third of the Senate comes up for election every two years.
This year, 2016, as in most years, there are about 34 senate seats up for election. Making a total of 469. That’s the most that you can affect
in any one election.)
*2 much less ever having a rat’s ass chance to ever pulling off said stunt, which would be great—don’t get me wrong. Five hundred and thirty-five progressive Representatives and Senators could affect the radical sea change this country disparately needs. Changing congress would be much more effective than getting Bernie in the White House, which I voted for even though I know it will never happen.
