politics

On a local level, elections can be much easier to make an impact on material conditions. Also good practice for organizing and meeting your community

Yeah I tried joining up as people advised me to do and felt the last lingering gobbets of my enthusiasm for it shrivel into dust when they made it clear to me they don't do mutual aid or anything like that and it's entirely bullshit

Getting on the Presidential ballot for a corrupt system that's going to fall apart in less than a decade does not strike me as realistic or forward-thinking

I hear you but I think the party's goal is still sustained growth which may at some point enable state chapters to start running serious local campaigns. I'm not a member however though I plan to begin the process once I'm back in the states next year.

However some of our other comrades who do work with them have said that there is not much money spent on the campaigns, there is just the volunteer time to get the signatures and of course whatever events Claudia and Karina partake in (but these double as general socialist agit prop so I'm sure you'd agree they aren't a waste of time either). I'll agree though that the rhetoric could use a little tweaking because "we now have a path to over 270 electoral college votes" probably seems like a delusionally optimistic statement to many from the outside. But that's small change in the grand scheme of the party's goals and activities.

Let's hope that at some point we can start getting socialists on county boards of supervisors' and fuck up landlord's lives on a direct level.

It's only a "vanity ticket" if you consider winning elections to be the goal of a party. The PSL is under no illusions they're going to succeed in bourgeois democracy. Pivoting to actually trying to win state ballots is a step backwards—it would represent a slip into electoralism and they'd become effectively indistinguishable from the DSA.

The goal of participating in bourgeois elections is to draw attention, nothing more.

💯 This is why I finally got fed up with the green party. Where they ran local candidates they actually won and made real impact (I lived in Richmond, California where Gayle Mclaughlin was on city council and then a 2 term mayor!) But the focus on national elections that they could never win given fptp, and the subservience of the California GP to the national party annoyed me enough to switch to no party preference.

Claudia de la Cruz, Gloria La Riva was the 2020 candidate

Move to Russia and hack the US voting systems. Spread endless communist propaganda on Reddit using thousands of Russian and Chinese bots.

Otherwise, agitprop. Idk how hard it is to get in contact with those working on this part of the campaign, but you could send people their way. From what I've seen and heard, getting in contact can be difficult.

I believe it mean that they are getting signatures and doing the necesary paperwork to be on the ballot

It means they're still working on getting the necessary signatures.

I'm in a branch in Ohio, most states require a lot of signatures to get someone on the ballot. I don't know how big the Florida branches are or how many signatures they require, but they probably wouldn't be pursuing ballot access unless they were sure they would get it by November.