The path to taking power is to go to the poorer half (in presidential election years) to two thirds (in non-presidential election years) of the voting-age population, who have been and will be *purposefully excluded* by the Democratic Party, and give them reasons to become politically active.
1. Draw up a simple ten-point program *with universal health care at the top of the agenda.* Hammer on the issue of universal health care until the party's name becomes identified with the issue in the minds of people. 2. Find a cool and charismatic Black or Latino leader who can get Blacks, Latinos, Arabs, left-wing working-class whites, etc. excited. 3. Don't just campaign during election years -- make the party the leading organizer of mass actions and political forums on the left between the election years. Absorb the politics of protest within the party, and turn sporadic protest activists into party organizers -- in short, re-connect the streets with ballot boxes. 4. Concentrate the party resources on cities and states -- preferably with bigger proportions of colored populations than others -- where the party is likely to fare well, either because the party base is exceptionally strong or because the Democratic Party is in the most advanced state of decay. -- Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>