Do You Know Who Should Run in 2024?
The time is now to start finding good candidates! Who do you see at school board meetings or the state legislature, making excellent points and holding administration accountable? Who is passionate about American ideals, and who is an effective leader? Is it someone in your Legislative District? Is it a friend, co-worker or someone you keep hearing about? Is it you?
Arizona Women of Action is on the lookout for solid, principled citizens who can effectively inspire the American Dream, and gather momentum to support Strong Families, Safe Cities and Thriving Kids. That’s really all it takes—plus some good people to come along side and help you run your campaign. (We can help connect you.) Email us about someone you know.
You don’t need years of political experience. Many of our most effective new school board members had never run for office before! But you DO need a strong message in order to win voters.
Americans are responding to messages of moral protection and timeless American Values.
Christopher Rufo wrote a great essay for the Manhattan Institute called Winning the Language War. He says “there is an opportunity for a significant shift in rhetoric for the political Right.” Rather than the typical conservative arguments through a statistical or performance frame, which fails to capture voters’ gut-level emotion or vision, conservatives must “make their arguments through a moral frame, speaking to the conflict of values that underlies the division between Left and Right.”
One example is the argument for school choice. “The activist Corey DeAngelis noted that the … movement suddenly started winning when it stopped making statistical arguments about performance metrics and started making moral arguments about parental rights and the content of the curriculum.”
The Left is masterful at using language creatively to capture emotions. But they often make no rational sense, and their messaging is negative.
Rufo says we can take the moral and ‘Linguistic High Ground’.
“What is the purpose of politics?... (W)e’re arguing that it shouldn’t be squandered on an ideology based on resentment, revenge, and redistribution, but the timeless American principles of excellence, merit, competence, and achievement, and protecting the values of the broad middle class. And when we can create a debate about ends, not just a debate about means, we can seize the moral high ground and we can utilize this vocabulary effectively. In a way, we can reawaken the great conservative vocabulary to say that we are protecting the people and their most deeply-held values, against a hostile and nihilistic bureaucracy that would love nothing more than to decimate them.”
“And as we build that meta-narrative—we pull in school choice, we pull in the federal budget, we pull in DEI bureaucracies in public universities—all of a sudden we have a really powerful story to tell. We can rally people to the cause and we can point them towards a higher end—the pursuit of the true, the good, and the beautiful or, in the American context, the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness—that is going to get people inspired, get people motivated, and get people on board with a movement that has the possibility to make real meaningful changes in everyone’s life.”
Thank you for reminding us of that, Mr. Rufo!... Now, does anyone know of some great citizens who believe in that inspiring, motivating American story? Let’s start building this MOVEMENT now toward 2024!
P.S. Soon, AZWOA will have a place on our website for candidates who have announced their run for 2024 and who share our values. We will post their website and how people can sign their petitions. Please email us if you or someone you know has announced a candidacy.