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In reply to the discussion: Getting more conservative as you get older? [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)But more likely to be pragmatic, realistic about political reality.
If one wants the Democratic Party to steer left, one has to change it from the bottom-up. Start with the precincts. Get ones delegates at that level, and one has control of the district delegations. Once the districts are in ones hands, the state delegation becomes in reach. Once one has the state delegations, the national party is yours.
That is what the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition did in the late 70's and the 80's with the Republican Party, very effectively I might add.
If one wants to make change, that is how it is done, not by nominating a top of ticket POTUS candidate with the whole, entire party machinery aligned against that candidate.
The deal is:
1. It takes time to accomplish a political revolution.
2. It takes a lot of hard work and organization, mostly at the bottom of the hierarchy. The Moral Majority and Christian Coalition did it by flagrantly violating IRS rules against advocating politics from their pulpits.
We have work to do, and we don't have pulpits. But we do have a very noisy Internet.
If you want to take the party back, run for precinct delegate and get like minded people to join you. Repeat that across the nation.