Reply #102: EVERYBODY IN THIS THREAD, PLEASE READ THIS LINK:

[Waiting For Everyman]

It tells how we can make the Dem party more Progressive - it's easy and can be done in time to influence the 2012 elections.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1640640

I know this isn't new information, but it's new to many of us. It is kept a big secret in both major parties. The parties will tell us quickly enough how to work for them for free, and how to donate money to them. But they make it very hard to find out HOW TO INFLUENCE THEM.

Precinct committeemen can vote for party leaders. In the public elections they determine how the vote is counted. They determine the party's candidates. In some places these party committeemen positions are vacant, or a matter of simple appointment just by asking the county party chairman for it.

Just working for the party as-is won't do us any good. At best, we'll keep electing candidates we don't like that way. It worked for the TParty, and with as little time before the election as we have now. Lots of us doing this all over the country could make a difference.

Maybe lots of you knew this but I didn't, and I have ASKED how to break into the party and got no answer. It's very hard to find out, even though it's so simple and easy. This is how.


(Thanks to libmom74 for her mention of this upthread.)