Signal #1591

Hey everyone, TLDR: Check this link to know your district information : https://findmypollsite.vote.nyc/ Petitioners may be around collecting signatures, and figuring this out quickly helps them get to the point. I know we are all trying to get on with our day. --- This is a bit of a rant, and my apologies if I sound naive. I'm 42 and taking steps in a direction I honestly though was best left for other people. I'm developing a new perspective and I hope its OK to engage here with my borough. A lot's going on in this country and our state. Curious, passionate, invested folks are going to be campaigning on their behalf or on behalf of others asking for signatures to get on various ballots. I, myself, am stepping up for the first time in ED26, in AD41 (Madison) for the volunteer position of county committee member for the democrats. Now, I'm a political outsider. I'm a house-dad and aspiring fiction writer. I went to school for film production. I like video games. I hate telling people what to do. I love working WITH people to figure out the best way forward - like working with actors to nail a scene. I am used to recognizing politics as another sphere of reality made of people "built for that." I mainly got triggered by politics when I saw my country separating kids from their families at the border in 2017, putting human beings in cages. I'm seeing more of that now with a lot of money being invested in warehouses and I just can't fathom how the sum total of elites running this country couldn't think up another way. I thought "all men are created equal" was a cornerstone value of our country and really something we could all depend on, and that anything else was blatant corruption. I have realized since then that humanity as a cultural value is something I took for granted. So, I'm a foolish outsider that kind of wants to audit what's happening with our state legislature as a commoner. I'm not groomed fo