Hello. This is Rumble with Michael
Moore. Welcome, everyone.
We're in the home stretch here of our blue tsunami series blue
dots in a Red Sea. This is episode 10 recruit and
run a beloved blue winner. Today's Mission here is to
encourage you to recruit candidates before the next
election, let's find the right people to run and I want to show
you how it's done. I want to give you some Is and I
want you to believe that you can pull this off because a lot of
people have pulled it off, you are not alone.
When I moved to a red County in northern Michigan, sometime,
after the year 2000, I had no idea just how red it was.
I mean, I my first election day there.
I went to the polling place. I signed in and I was handed a
ballot. I took it in the voting booth
opened it up and I looked at it and I thought, huh?
There's been a mistake here. It didn't quite look like a real
ballot. It was like half the ballot was
missing, you know, like the printer had somehow messed up or
something because I'm looking at it and there's only one party on
the ballot. There were only Republicans on
this ballot and this is for all these offices, you know, locally
from the county, commissioner to the sheriff, to the prosecuting
attorney judges and it was just Republican after Republican a
Republican and no Democrat. I'm like, this can't be right.
I've got a spoiled ballot. I've got some kind of misprinted
ballot. How could there not be a single
Democrat? It was weird.
So I left the voting booth I went back up to the woman who
gave me the ballot. I said, I think there's
something wrong here. There are no Democrats on the
ballot. Now, for any, look at this
County Treasurer the County. Supervisor go down the whole
list here, state representative state senator.
Is there something wrong with my eyes?
Here is there do I not see the word Democrat somewhere?
What? Just, please explain this to me
because my ma'am, You've handed me a Soviet ballot.
She said what this is a Soviet ballot.
Remember the old Soviet Union where there was only one party
the Communist party? You know, they had elections,
they had elections But there was only one party on the ballot.
There, you would go into the booth and they would you have a
choice between this communist and that Communist Party member,
and that was it. We don't have that was we're
like a full-fledged democracy here we have, you know, all
points of view that we have a diverse country that people
think and feel different ways about all the issues.
And I don't understand is there. No are Democrats band in this
County know. She's laughing now and no no no
no no. Although you could be a Democrat
and run here. I said, we're at why aren't they
on the ballot? She says because nobody wants to
run as a Democrat, you mean nobody?
You know, there's a Democrat on the ballot for president and the
senator, from the state. But locally the local offices,
the local senators and representatives, whatever number
she says, no there's been no Democrat on this ballot here.
And I can't remember when and I'm like, you've got to be
kidding me. I said, look how many people are
in the County here. There's got to be like you know,
30,000 people in this County you're telling me that out of
the 30,000, there's no Democrats while she said no I'm at
wouldn't say that there are no Democrats but nobody wants to
run as a Democrat because you can't win because only
Republicans when I said yeah, but they don't know, Republicans
only win because there's only Republicans on the ballot of
that's the same things as I get. This is Soviet ballet.
If you only need one party, You don't need two parties, three
parties for parties. No no no one party.
The Republican party. Now go vote.
It's a free election. That wasn't her voice.
That was me, sort of thinking, this is what I'm hearing.
And I'm being handed a ballot that they hand out in
totalitarian countries. Not just the Communist obviously
but certainly all the right-wing dictatorship.
Countries course they don't want any opposition.
Of course, they don't allow it. Because while because you only
need one party. I went back in, I Mark the
couple you know, National Democrats at the top and I
handed it to her and I thought, you know what I should do is I
should just do it right in because there is a right in line
and each of these offices I should just write in and in,
sorry, I stepped back into the pool and I didn't want to look,
I know, they know this is going to be me, they know who I am.
I don't want to be a ding dong here, so but I had to, I just
wrote in a few friends. A few people, I knew in the
county, then I wrote my name in, it was probably drain.
Commissioner. I had it.
I just picked like the lowest office possible just because I
did not want to turn in a ballot.
That was essentially the totalitarian ballot of only one
party is allowed here. It was so depressing to think.
Oh, why did we move here? Why didn't we move the Ann Arbor
or go back to Flint or go back, you know, anywhere in Detroit
East Lansing And I just thought from that point on, I will never
ever vote in this County again, if it's a Soviet ballot.
And so that was one, as I told you back in the first episode
here, where we decided to, you know, try and find some local
Democrats. If there's a monthly or
quarterly meeting we went to a meeting there were four
dues-paying Democrats there and then that was the start I
thought. Wow this is great and we you
know, it went from 4 to 10 to 20 and slowly we built it and And
by the next election, we had 200 dues-paying members of the
democratic party and as I learned a few weeks ago around
this election, in November, I was told by the county chair for
the Democrats in the same county they had over. 400 dues-paying
members. I was, oh, man, I was so happy
to hear this and then, and then in the days after the election,
when they had the all the votes counted that polling place where
I voted on that day many years ago and the Ship that I lived in
voted for Gretchen, Whitmer, or Democratic, governor state of
Michigan. And Jocelyn Benson is the
Democratic Secretary of State. This very Township had somehow
flipped. Now, the course, there were
still Republicans that one in the township, especially in the
more local races. But I just thought, oh my God,
this is and in fact, my belief, in our ability to pull this off
a decade or two ago had come true.
I'm not the only one who experienced this, this past
election, and I want to encourage you.
If you live in a red County, you live in a red town, you live in
a red congressional district. This can happen, it has to
happen though, only because you believe it can happen.
And because, you know, you're not alone and it's really just
about getting out our people to vote.
I know what you're thinking in your head.
Mike, that may be true there in your rig County in Michigan, but
you have no idea what Oklahoma looks like.
And I know what you're saying, and I know this feeling, but
there's now been too much evidence to prove that.
If you do the right organizing, and if you run the right people,
Your chance of winning is much better.
These days. Remember, too.
That there are so many young people that become adults, all
these kids, we've been raising, we didn't raise them to be
haters, a misogynist and bigots. We raise them to care about
their fellow human beings, and they care about the planet.
There's been a shift. There has been a cultural and
political shift. If you don't know that, it's
only because you've just been surrounded in this despair, I
want to encourage you come out of that despair.
So here's what you've got to do. Before the next election, your
new group, your blue group has got to form a candidate
recruitment committee. And you've got to meet and sit
down and brainstorm and figure out who's the best person to
run. Who do we approach?
Don't wait for somebody to make up their mind to run.
In fact, sometimes we end up in some of our local ballots, where
we do have Democrats on the ballot, but the wrong Democrats
are not the right people. They didn't know how to get.
Out the boat, they weren't willing to work and knock on
every door. You have to knock on every door,
by the way, to run into win. You have to knock on every door
and if you can, depending on how large your district is, or your
Precinct or whatever, you've got to go knock on it.
A second time, in the months, leading up to the election, they
need to meet you and see you. And you need to have a human
conversation with them, not a political one, a human
conversation. That is the best way to people
go. Yeah.
You know, he came to my door. No, I wasn't such a bad guy.
We can't leave this to fate and we can't leave this up to just
the people think they should be running.
We need to find the right people.
So here's what you've got to do. Just sit down right now.
You could brainstorm this list with me right now.
Just just pull out your phone, or your piece of paper or
whatever and think of people in your city, in your school,
district in your area, who's a local hero, who's done
something. So, So something, so great for
the area. You know, maybe it's somebody
that started a conservation group or some environmental
thing, they cleaned up the water in the creek.
Maybe it's the person that started a soup kitchen,
providing food and meals for seniors and and people in need,
you know, if you find the right person who's done this, maybe
there's just a great history teacher at your high school.
People have had this teacher for the last 20 years.
They love her. They absolutely love her.
You got to start thinking about, who is been in that community
that people have encountered. Maybe it's the person that runs
the United Way, Maybe. It's the Daisy's leader for the
Girl Scout Troop leader. I mean really how many girls
have gone through that girl scout troop in the last 20
years? Run the football coach.
The Beloved football, coach six of the last nine seasons have
been winning seasons and all the the kids love them.
And he's not some jerk and he's, you know, I mean there's so many
possibilities. Maybe it's the woman.
Who's the Lutheran minister at the Lutheran Church in town?
Who's Progressive, who cares about people who are the Have
Nots? seriously, just I mean I could,
I could think of a whole bunch of other categories, but think
of, there's somebody and there's more than one A good person with
good values and cares about people loves the country.
Loves the town you live in. But there's also young people
people like to vote for young people.
So, a lot of young candidates. You saw the first generation of
Zoomer here that got elected to congress.
He's 25 years old, Max, Frost from Florida, from Orlando,
showed up in Washington, this week after being elected in
November, 25 years old. I ran when I was 18 and was
elected, you know, people love smart, young people, and
enthusiastic young people. And you know, they come knocking
at your door and say, you know, I'm going to do this and we're
and I'm going to and I'm not going to fight for this and I'm
not going to give up. And I'm going to and you
actually believe it because, you know, you're so probably halfway
worn out yourself, but you, but here is you that the door youth
saying, give me the mantle and I will make things better for our
area. Wow.
Who is that person think of women when possible?
Run women. This is another cultural shift.
If you look at the statistics of those races that have a woman
versus a ban on the ballot, How many more times now?
The woman wins. It's so great to see.
I mean, we've seen just in the matter of a decade or so
Congress itself. More and more women being
elected. People are tired of the same
old. Same old, the same old white
guy. Running for office.
Bob Jones here. I mean thank you.
Bob Jones, whoever you are, thank you for your years of
service to as the county commissioner, but please don't,
we want to hear some new ideas, don't we all agree.
That things are a little messed up right now.
Some new blood young people, women.
It really is the path to go down and if you start thinking
outside the box and think about people you're like a casting
director in a movie. Almost.
It's like you're thinking who's the best person to play this
role? And listen, let me just warn you
because you live in a red area. You're going to think the person
we got to find is got to be like a more conservative Democrat or
more conservative. No, no, no, don't do that.
You're going to lose. Because why would they vote for
the conservative Democrat? When they've already got a
Conservative Republican. Why would you vote for hamburger
when you've got prime rib? They're going to vote for the
real deal. The Republicans are not going to
vote for your Democrat, who's trying to sound safe and and not
offensive, and no. Know you've got to run for
somebody who will come out and say, I believe in a woman's
right to choose. You can't say that in this town.
Oh yes, you can. Again, Kansas this summer,
almost 60% of the people in this deep red Republican state voted
to make abortion legal and they put it in their friggin
Constitution candidates all across the country.
This November who ran with a pro-choice in favor of legal
abortion and just said so you know, refreshing that is two
people. Wow, I'll always believe this
person because she wasn't afraid to say it.
So don't get a candidates going to try to placate or try to be a
conservative, that's fake. They know it, you've got to
trust that there are so many non-voters or people don't
usually vote that would love to have an opportunity to vote for
somebody that does have Progressive values that does
care about the planet, that does care about the wage Gap and the
income inequality Run somebody that has your beliefs.
Don't be chicken shit about this.
You've got to recruit beloved candidates.
People in your town that people are going to want to vote for
it. If they haven't met them before,
they're going to meet them at the door.
Probably twice. And they're going to love this
candidate. And will you win most of these?
No, not at first but you're going to win some a lot more
than you've ever won before. But you have to be committed to
this, you have to find candidates that are committed.
And then you have to develop the right message around them that
tells the public, the truth. How refreshing trust me on this
when when voters see the real deal.
They would rather go for that then somebody who is saying that
they're on your side, but your radar is telling you there,
something fake about this. So that's our lesson here for
today. You've got to have candidate
recruitment. You've got to find the right
people. You got to think outside the
box. When you think of these people,
you're not thinking of a Lutheran minister right now.
I know you're not, you're not thinking about the woman that
set up the food bank, you need to start thinking about a
different way. It's the only way we're going to
win. Be bold, be brave.
Go for it. If you are the person that
should be running, then you should start working on this.
Now, now for the 2024 election, is there an office you should be
running for. Is there an office?
You would like to run for where you would do well by the people
of your area. Don't put this off where the
first month of a new year. And we don't have much time.
The next election cycle will be around faster than you can
imagine. Find your blue candidates.
Make sure that they will be beloved by the voters.
Think about them as winning this election, which they can do.
Thanks for listening to this. I know, you're think I want to,
I want to let you go because you're going to start writing
down, these people put them in a draft on your phone, or your
computer and send it around to some of the new blue friends.
You've met, hey, what do you what do you think about?
You know, that woman that gathered together all the Those
kids and they did that huge Cleanup in the park and then she
just kept doing it in other Parks.
What about her? Yeah, people like her.
Alexandria Ocasio. Cortez a bartender.
Real people, real people who are also those smart.
Who are going to work their butts off and who are going to
be the new face. Of the new liberal Progressive
Lefty Democratic Party. Why wait?
This has been Rumble with Michael Moore episode. 10 of
blue dots in a red. See, we've got two episodes left
in the next few days. Thanks for all your feedback on
this and let me know if you or someone that you found is going
to be running. And when it comes time near the
election, I will put them up on my site.
I'll put them in my podcast. If I can, we'll get the word
out. We'll build the movement around
this with the right people running.
For office. Thanks everybody for listening
and I'll talk to you soon and said goodbye.