If we held a convention with leftist creators and candidates hosting a rally to not just get people to vote for these policies but also to inspire people to take action, would people go? I ask because I got absolutely dogpiled on here for criticizing the DNC for not having more leftists and not listening to the protestors. 
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Leftists are far too fragmented and weak to have a successful convention like the democrats or republicans do. 

You should start by joining up with one your local leftist organizations. It’ll provide you with a community and a mechanism to channel your frustrations.
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I'm not saying it has to start out as big, but even joining local organizations seems frowned upon based on replies I'm getting. It feels like people are comfortable just complaining.
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I think you’re making the mistake of taking what people say on Reddit and applying it to everyone else. Remember what website you’re on; everyone bitches and complains on here endlessly, regardless of sub. Reddit is always the first and last stop on the boo-boo parade.

Anyone telling you not to join a local org is a dumbass and should go find something better to do.
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I was watching Hasan's coverage at the DNC and basically all the Dem's are saying and doing what we know they're going to say and do and Hasan just looks depressed there. Like I guess I don't understand why that's more productive. I know Hasan supports organizing, but all the election coverage in this community drives the focus of our discussions to be about the dems and the election instead of more important thing.

For all we do in bashing the dems, which they deserve, at the same time we're expecting them to just throw up leftist candidates that meet our standards with out working with them. And any leftist that does try to worth with Dems is a lib, so I'm starting to feel lost on what the end goals are or roadmap for attempting to push politics in this country to the left.

You're right that that I'm probably giving the reddit opinions too much weight, but online is most people's first exposure and impressions of what leftists are like and what leftism is. We can sigh and  roll our eyes that the dems and republicans don't' put in the same effort to learn and study what we did, but I don't see why we can't also be good advocates for ourselves.
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The end goal is to create a system where these restrictions are not in place. The way things are set up now, we will never, ever find success. It’s simply rigged against us to such an extreme. There’s several ways to change the system, but the one I advocate for, is a gradual and peaceful revolution. 

I’m at work so I can’t afford to get into too much detail but the premise is to focus on small, actionable issues and implement changes to make people’s lives better so that we can build up the momentum necessary to tackle bigger issues. 

For instance elections in this country are kinda shit. The voting system sucks, money is more important than the message, and the entire system has been gerrymandered to shit. Trying to fix all that right now at the National level would be next to impossible because there’s a billion things to do. What you can do is start small; focus on state legislatures. Flip individual districts. Remove crazies from appointed positions like what’s going on in Georgia. Implement new voting systems for state and local elections, etc etc. once enough states have done this the system as a whole will begin to change and a lot of the complexity stopping us from addressing these bigger National issues will be gone.

You have to just accept that we are the losers. Everyone wants to stop us from succeeding. The system is designed to make achieving success for us harder. Despite all their infighting and squabbling they can all band together to push back against us. This doesn’t mean we should give up or can’t succeed, we just need to be realistic.
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