Why not say goodbye to outdated ways of working and get a job making politics fun?
What if “work” in 2025 didn’t feel like a job at all? What if it was the wildest, most exciting, most thrilling adventure of your life? And do you have the courage to help reimagine politics, reenergize the Democrats, reshape the country, and rewrite the story of America's future?
How long will you linger in workplace misery before you say goodbye to old and outdated ways of working, get away from it all, and create something better?
By Mike Reid | July 2025
Look, I'll be honest: If you're graduating college in 2025, your job prospects are, ummm, not quite what they were when I graduated college 18 years ago, back in 2007.
For the class of 2007, whether we wanted to become doctors, or we wanted to be lawyers, or even if we wanted to work at Facebook, the future was looking bright — or so we thought.
And nowhere was the future looking brighter than in Democratic politics, where a young senator with a funny name was promising hope and change. And so even though Barack Obama didn’t support gay marriage in 2007, Old Millennials (then in our early to mid-20s) quickly developed a HUGE crush on Obama — because hope and change and 'yes we can' sounded pretty awesome back in 2007.
But the truth is that Old Millennials spent very little time making pro-Obama digital content — because obviously TikTok didn't exist in 2007 or even in 2008, and neither did Instagram. (And also, we all had flip phones, and flip phones couldn't record video, so....)
So, mostly what we did is that we knocked on doors. Thousands upon thousands of Old Millennials took jobs as field organizers for Obama in 2007 and 2008 and spent 12+ hours each day knocking on doors of strangers and asking people to vote for Barack Obama.
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But after Barack Obama (with his VP Joe Biden) won a resounding victory in 2008, most Obama campaign staffers were out of a job, and most quickly left politics.
And then, the 2010 midterms were a epic disaster, and Democrats lost roughly 400 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Barack Obama called it a "shellacking" and Democrats were sad.
But then, Barack Obama decided to run for reelection in 2012, and Millennials graduating college in 2011 and 2012 (who hadn't had the chance to knock on enough doors in 2008) again signed up by the hundreds of thousands to help Obama defeat Mitt Romney in 2012!
On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, Barack Obama and Joe Biden won reelection with 332 electoral votes (and Taylor Swift was 22 years old).
And was the Obama/Biden 2012 reelection campaign as exciting as the Obama/Biden campaign of 2008?
No. Not quite.
But although the 2012 campaign field organizers (born mostly in 1988 and 1989 and even 1990) weren't quite as fired up and ready to knock on doors 12+ hours a day as the Old Millennials were in 2008, these Peak Millennials did a perfectly fine job, and Barack Obama (with sidekick Joe Biden) won a resounding victory in 2012.
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And then, of course, after the 2012 campaign was over, most of the campaign staffers lost their jobs and left politics, and Democrats lost roughly another 75 seats in the House in the 2014 midterms.
And then it was on to 2016! And Barack Obama wasn't allowed to run again, so the only two choices in the Democratic primary were a frumpy socialist named Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
And the Millennials in line to become 2016 field organizers — those born in 1992 and 1993 and 1994, well, they mostly preferred Bernie.
But the Boomers preferred Hillary, and so Hillary defeated Bernie in the 2016 primary, and then Millennials did NOT knock on doors for Hillary with the same enthusiasm as we did for Obama, and then Hillary didn't visit Michigan — and then she lost to Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton with 304 electoral votes — and Democrats were (briefly) very sad.
But here's the really wild thing about the 2016 election: Democrats were sad for maybe 24-48 hours. And then, very quickly — and with an energy nobody had during the 2016 election itself — Democrats became extremely fired up about stopping Trump!
We put on pink hats, and we protested!
And regular Democrats got more engaged in politics, and SNL got a whole lot funnier, and Melissa McCarthy played press secretary Sean Spicer and everyone watched the clips together and laughed.
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And a whole new generation of aspiring leaders stepped up to run for the U.S. House of Representatives! (Which was awesome because the Democrats had lost roughly 475 seats during the Obama years).
And a whole new generation of enthusiastic Millennials — born in 1994 and 1995 and even 1996 — were just graduating college, and so they signed up to work on those House campaigns!
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But there wasn't a lot of field organizing in 2018 — because 2018 was a midterm, and because Obama wasn't running, and because by 2018 everyone was pretty tired of knocking on doors.
But there was still a little field organizing in 2018, and these Young Millennials — the last of the Millennials — did a pretty decent job of knocking on doors, all things considered.
But mostly these Young Millennials (who'd just graduated college) were given fundraising jobs that typically were filled by people with a cycle or two of campaign experience, because there were so many people running for Congress that they were all desperate for staff.
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And although these Young Millennials were pretty miserable the whole damn time, they put on a smile — because Trump had just won in 2016, and because that's what Millennials do.
And Democrats won 41 seats in 2018.
And no, this was not the resounding 100+ seat victory we wanted.
But there was no time to cry over what didn't happen, because then it was time for the 2020 presidential election!
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You remember the 2020 election, right?
Bernie Sanders, the frumpy socialist from Vermont, was back for a second round. But there was also this professor named Elizabeth, and a lot of people even liked the Millennial Mayor Pete, and some people were even pushing for Billionaire Bloomberg, and there was this guy who wore a hat that said "MATH" and everyone loved it.
But then, just as it looked like the frumpy socialist from Vermont might just win the primary this time, in February 2020 all the other candidates dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden.
"A frumpy socialist can't defeat Donald Trump," they argued!
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But there was no time to debate or discuss that opinion, because suddenly the Great Pandemic of 2020-2022 changed everything.
The 2020 presidential election was like none that came before it.
Everyone briefly fell in love with Andrew Cuomo.
Donald Trump suggested microdosing bleach.
Anthony Fauci rolled his eyes — a lot.
Democrats did absolutely no field organizing at all.
And Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump. (But just barely.)
And then Joe Biden — who'd promised to be a transitional figure and only serve one term if elected — arrived in the Oval Office in January 2021, and after 36 years as a senator and then eight years as Barack Obama's vice president, Joe Biden fell into a deep slumber.
And Joe Biden dreamed a dream of NOT being a transitional figure.
So, instead of moving the ball down the field and just trying to get a few first downs and then maybe kick a field goal, our Democratic QB, Joe Biden, threw a bunch of 30+ yard incomplete passes.
And then he threw some 20 yard and 10 yard incompletions, too!
And then he fumbled the snap.
So, Joe Biden quit football and tried baseball instead.
And then instead of stepping up to the plate and just trying to get on base to allow the next batter a chance to hit a home run, our pitcher Joe Biden insisted on trying to hit that home run himself.
But....he's the pitcher, right?
So, Joe obviously struck out looking.
And then, after Joe Biden gave up 45 runs in the 3rd inning of the game, the Democratic team refused to warm up any relief pitchers.
"Joe Biden is Plan A and we have no Plan B," the Democrats argued.
And then, Joe Biden got up in front of 51 million Americans for 90 minutes, and proceeded to confirm what most Democrats already believed (and had been telling pollsters for a while): Joe Biden was too old to run for reelection in 2024.
And look, I really do like Joe Biden.
Joe Biden dedicated his entire life to public service.
But Jesus Christ, my fellow Democrats.
That was not our finest hour.
Remember that look on Rachel Maddow's face after the debate?
Everyone thought it was immediately over.
But then Senator Coons was like, "Looked fine to me!"
And then Chuck Schumer was like, "I'm not prepared for this!"
And then Joe Biden was like, "It will take the Lord Almighty himself to convince me to drop out," and then finally — 3 1/2 weeks after his disqualifying debate — Joe Biden kneeled, and Joe Biden prayed.
But unfortunately Kamala Harris didn't spend any of those 24 days preparing answers to questions like: Is there anything (anything at all!??) that you can say to create some distance from this uniquely unpopular president who just looked extremely senile on live TV?
And then a relatively small but very meaningful number of voters decided to switch their 2020 support for Biden to Trump in 2024, because in 2020 the incumbent (Trump) wasn't doing a good job, and then in 2024 the incumbent (Biden) wasn't doing a good job, and then VP Harris created no distance between herself and Joe.
And so Donald Trump (who'd won in 2016, and almost won in 2020) won again in 2024. It really wasn't that unexpected — except for roughly three weeks, Trump was ahead in the polls the entire time.
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But now — eight months after Trump’s second win and a third of the way through the 2026 cycle — Democrats still don’t have any new and exciting ideas.
Democrats still don't have anything new because for many years we stifled dissent — and if you stifle dissent, you also stifle innovation.
And I don't know about you, but I don't think we can wait any longer for Chuck Schumer to release his bold new plan, because god bless Chuck Schumer, but he hasn't even started on such a plan.
So what's the good news?
Oh Sweet Baby Jesus, is there any good news!?
Yes!
10,000% yes!!
Because now — finally! — after the Democratic strategy of 2024 failed and after the Democratic strategy of 2025 has failed thus far, now is finally the moment to do things completely differently.
Now is finally the moment to create a new way of doing politics as Democrats in 2025 — starting with a brand new approach to what it means to “work” in Democratic politics in 2025.
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But Step #1 — the hardest but crucial first step — is to STOP doing what isn't working any more. (Because isn't it miserable...?)
And then, Step #2 is to get away from all the noise and the digital distractions that consume your life. (At least for a few weeks...!)
And Step #3 is to work through our seemingly impossible to solve political problems not for 30 seconds but for two glorious weeks of deep work. (And couldn't that be kind of exciting?!)
And then, Step #4 is to make politics fun!! (Because right now, the political situation is so goddamn miserable that nobody wants to participate — and it's important we all participate in democracy...!)
So, why not say goodbye to the daily grind and attend a two-week long Democratic Retreat — and then maybe even stick around and work at Democratic Retreats afterward?
Why not take a chance on something completely new?
Why not help invent that something new?
Because isn't being among the first to take a "risk" on building something new (instead of clinging to something that is obviously completely broken), well, isn't that what leadership is all about?
And the Democrats could really use some new leaders right now!
The Democrats could really use YOUR leadership right now!!