Always if you're writing in English in the USA. :-) That kind of always.

You'd need to start by taking *NONPARTISAN* local elections, which is usually limited to school boards, township trustees, some municipal authorities and some judgeships.

Otherwise you're still stuck with the statutes that make it MASSIVELY more difficult to run as an Independent.

News flash: Democratic Socialists *are* Democrats in the USA, and not all US Democrats are "corporate Democrats."

So join! Once you have enough members you can shape your County Party however you want.

I remember when that was The Clock.

In Ohio anyway, impoverished neighborhoods just don't vote in cities big and small, either. I don't know but suspect it's the same nationwide. The cities are still blue dots in a red sea, but they could bring so many more votes to offset R votes if people in those neighborhoods had a reason to vote.

Only the wealthy remember what insurance cost before the ACA.

Because only the wealthy could afford it.

First you need primary candidates, and campaign volunteers and donors for those primary candidates. If you can, run! If you can't, volunteer and/or donate! If you can't do any of those, then relational organizing and social media are worth a lot.

Try three decades. Look at voting maps of Appalachian and rural areas over time. When Bill Clinton threw in with Republican strategist Dick Morris and decided to abandon lower-middle-class and poor people, that's when people stopped voting for Dems.

Except that didn't used to be their base. Their base used to be working class and poor people. White people matching that description started voting for Republicans; BIPOC just stopped voting. Which further accelerated the Dems' abandonment - "they don't vote so we're going to ignore them."

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If a genie gave Democrats three wishes, they'd negotiate down to one, and then wish for something they think Republicans would like."

That's nice. Has NPR disclosed the amount it receives from fossil fuel companies when they do climate stories? Or the amount it receives from the war industry when they do foreign relations stories?

What makes you think I'm not already a member of my State Committee as well as being a door-knocking, meeting-attending, phone-call-making, letter-writing, event-planning volunteer? I can't do it alone.

Sorry, I have to be a realist about this. Nearly every state has a 2-party system baked into law, making it EXTREMELY time-consuming and expensive even to get on the ballot as an Independent. Then, running statewide with no infrastructure is a losing proposition. Nobody wins w/o 1000s of volunteers.

None of them are up next year. I didn't want to credit it, but this was coordinated from the top. If we even have an electoral system in 2028 or 2030, then yeah, primary them, but this year, primary EVERY "D" Senator who isn't already excoriating the Traitor 8. Filing deadlines are coming fast.

My two year old has more courage when he dared to follow through with his threat to leave the house naked today if he can’t bring frozen waffles on the car.