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Exciting stuff, but only 9 states?
Why is that?
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Why is that?
Because the US is a bourgeois settler colony, and tbh I think PSL is squandering valuable time and resources on these presidential runs.
what should they be doing instead?
Running a criminal empire to provide hrt, insulin, and needed pharma at cost.
(Mostly joking)
taking notes
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)
Running in local elections and union elections and state elections, tbh.
They do those things too, you know.
I know, but this is a waste of time
Do more of those things.
Respectfully… You’re in the CPUSA?? Should they be campaigning for the democrats instead?
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.)
So you door knock for them, and leadership always endorses them. But you don’t campaign for them. Got it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
yeh
