My old colleagues are wh*res that will sell their soul to the devil to sign up more members and raise money. It’s not working. The only council office that gained membership in the entire country is Texarkana, TX. When I worked in the 2000s, our boy membership grew 5-10% every year.
All of our institutions are full of apparatchiks who would happily rent their kids for a nice paycheck. I see no way out of this corruption. It’s cancerous and the prognosis is terminal.
In Scouting, it can be done. In the 1970s, in attempting to appeal to urban youth, they dumbed down the program so bad, a boy could become an Eagle without ever camping. A grassroots effort to bring back “Outing in Scouting” finally reversed a lot of this urban appeal by the late 80s.
Just like ridding the GOP of Never-Trumpers, start getting good people involved in the local (county) level that will select like-minded people at the next level, all the way to the top. A battle of attrition for the soul of your GOP, Scouts, school board, is what’s needed to make this country right.