UPDATE ON BALLOT ACCESS🚨Over the last few months, volunteers around the country have been actively petitioning, talking with and collecting signatures from ...

Exciting stuff, but only 9 states?

Why is that?

    • v_pp
      141·
      3 months ago

      what should they be doing instead?

      • trashxeosEnglish
        31·
        3 months ago

        Building dual power in the various communities they exist within and firebombing police stations (for legal reasons, the second half of that is a joke)

      • MakanOPEnglish
        75·
        3 months ago

        Running in local elections and union elections and state elections, tbh.

        • v_pp
          131·
          3 months ago

          They do those things too, you know.

          • MakanOPEnglish
            41·
            3 months ago

            I know, but this is a waste of time

            Do more of those things.

            • v_pp
              101·
              3 months ago

              Respectfully… You’re in the CPUSA?? Should they be campaigning for the democrats instead?

              • MakanOPEnglish
                26·
                3 months ago

                We don’t campaign for Democrats and we do run our own candidates and have won seats several times.

                But tbh, we may at times go door-knocking for them at the local level, depending on the district.

                So there’s that.

                I just feel that, with PSL funding, which is likely more steep than what we have, they could do a “blitz” throughout the country on the local level elections and affect local policy, thus getting more cred and goodwill among the proletariat. A big push in that direction would do wonders. It would show that MLs mean business.

                That’s my personal feeling on this.

                I think Presidential elections are useless.

                (Respectfully, I’m not attacking PSL at all.)

                • v_pp
                  61·
                  3 months ago

                  So you door knock for them, and leadership always endorses them. But you don’t campaign for them. Got it.

    • MarxMadnessEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      National elections are the best way to raise your profile, and they show you have national ambitions. Doing those and nothing else would be a problem, but it makes sense to have national candidates as part of a movement-building strategy.

      • SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        I feel like that strategy holds up more in a proportional or parliamentary system, then in a majoritarian, presidential system, like what the US has.

        The bar to enter a presidential race is so high, and requires so much effort, with so little return on investment, that it feels like a waste to me.

        • v_pp
          8·
          3 months ago

          They are running a propaganda campaign more than a presidential campaign. Every campaign volunteer is someone who may join the party, and every signature is an opportunity to talk to strangers about socialism and the failure of bourgeois democracy. And from that perspective, it seems like it’s been fairly successful.

          • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            As an outsider this is my perspective. We know that 3rd parties make zero movement electorally, except when they threaten someone’s chances of winning. Instead of talking about Ralph Nader, it could, given enough momentum, be the PSL.

            Every campaign give opportunity to talk to people like you said. Get enough people and now the media wants to know who this group is who was “siphoning votes” giving you free air time.