You could have done five seconds of your own research and come to the correct conclusion, but you just believed it, just like two dozen of your other friends did.
What century is this? I thought it was [current year] where false information is repeated by everybody, and nobody researches anything they thought was "obvious".
Honestly, Warren, this exemplifies why people that really know the political process dislike the loudest "activists" like you. It's not because they're elitist. It's because you believe everything that you hear. You don't do any research. You're easily mislead by pie in the sky ideas instead of facts or what's possible. And you make the other 98% of your own allies look foolish.
Maybe, but too bad for them!
Of course an ordinary person who tries to get into politics is going to get some stuff wrong. But I found out a lot of stuff that was buried too and 98% of voters don't know, and that's been pretty useful.
Such as:
-municipal elections are in off years
-DTCs exist
-most politicians are not as smart as they look
-municipal politics is just as corrupt as bigger politics, but in a different way
-most towns have a bunch of "uppity grandmas" that you can ally with
-city governments below the size of say Boston are not prepared for close observation by the public, and with 3 lawyers and 10 loud friends, you can pass nearly anything you want
Yeah I make mistakes, and you can make fun of me about it. But it seems to me that the person willing to make mistakes tends to almost always outpace the person afraid to make any. YMMV.