Jesse S. Smith

Candidate for SFSD School Board, Zone 7 • The kind of education that allows them to see opportunity everywhere • Former (2022) candidate (D) for State House

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

For your consideration, positions that are not directly related to the local School Board race...

Amendment XXVII: [ ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment ]

Amendment XXVIII: [ Electoral College reform ]

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

Whoops, typo, that should have read "regulate"

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

We are Democrats because we believe in democracy.

Or at least, that's the idea.

The problem is, I have people in my social feed, in my personal circle, and sometimes on large Zoom calls, who do not believe in democracy. And nobody seems willing to challenge them.

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

Democratic Socialism: you want to regate the economy for the benefit of everyone

Marxism: you want to blow up rich people's houses like in "Glass Onion"

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

Happy Independence Day!

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

Well, I lost my blue checkmark. Oh, well.

There is no way I'm going to pay Elon for the privilege of looking important on one of the world's most toxic platforms.

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

I hope this helps clarify any misunderstanding

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

Democratic Socialism: you want to use legal, nonviolent, democratic means to change the system from within

Marxism: you don't believe in voting, so you want to use subversion and disinformation to undermine the system until it's vulnerable to violent overthrow

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

And Federal legislation increasing the number of members of the US House of Representatives to the maximum allowed by the Constitution, eg 1 rep for every 30k people.

I calculated it at something over 11,000 US Reps.

I believe that would make our democracy more representative.

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

For your consideration, positions that are not directly related to the local School Board race...

Amendment XXVII: [ ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment ]

Amendment XXVIII: [ Electoral College reform ]

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

Either make all US territories States or grant them full independence with transitional support & treaties of protection etc.

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

Votes are more important than retweets. I hope you understand.

Thank you for your time. Be well.

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

Time to revive this account.

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

My only hope of ever even coming close to winning an election here in rural Oregon requires me to appeal to moderates; and that requires me to distance myself from extremists.

Sure, I could play to the base, that would get me retweets, but it would not get me votes.

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

If you publicly advocate for the violent overthrow of capitalism (even as a so-called "joke") then I consider you a Marxist.

And I've seen more comments of this type in the past few years alone, than I saw in all my previous forty-some-odd years combined.

[Jesse S. Smith @smithfororegon]

I consider some of you extremists. I'm telling you this now so you won't be disappointed when you find out later. We generally agree on core values & priorities, but I consider your approach counterproductive. Your constant snark motivates the opposition & alienates moderates.