Everyone's always talking about PSL, SRA, DSA, RR, CPUSA, and I'm just over here like "I just wanna grill for god sake!"
There's a million little random leftist organizations with slightly different goals and ideologies, but which one should someone looking to, in the words of Father Matt, 'log the fuck off' go to? Which ones are crank warehouses? Which are honeypots? Which are full of libs?
Bitch and complain about your least favorite orgs and shill for your favorites here. Reply to others telling them that their org is full of libs and FBI agents. Etc.
EDIT: also anyone with a specific recommendation in the Quad Cities area in Iowa/Illinois definitely drop me a line
Not that anyone is asking, but I used to go to meetings for the local Dems. Without me, the average age was probably 75. People would ask why no young folks were there. I said that if you want young folks, you need to support Bernie. They ignored me so I stopped going. (One lady thought that young people are huge fans of Beto lol). I wish we had an org where I live but this place is very very rural and so many left-leaning people here are also hardcore fucking anti-vaxxers. It drives me insane.
Edit: also the local dems have been run by the same handful of gerontocrats FOREVER and they will only offer token support to any leftist candidates who actually win their primaries.
Seems to me like that's how rural local politics works everywhere; a cadre of fossils who essentially form an affinity group just control everything and shut everyone else out. Fight fire with fire, form your own circlejerk vanguard, take over
This was actually one of the little-known objectives of Our Revolution starting in 2017. Given their limited reach, they were actually wildly successful, imo. Anyone who says, "you can't take over the Democratic Party" probably doesn't even understand the mechanics of how you would even do it.
Check out the archive of their site for the project: https://web.archive.org/web/20180105021240/http://transformtheparty.com/
At the end of the day, it's not that big of a deal, because the party apparatus is more or less vestigial; it has almost no power. The party is mostly run by the elected public officeholders or their various committees. Political "parties" in the USA are bizarre quasi-public election apparatuses.
You should've ran for precinct captain. You'd actually get a vote in the local party. There are tons of empty seats in rural areas, you would probably be able to run unopposed.
I did actually run and win, but the other officers were libs who refused to allow me to do anything. (I attempted to organize local meetings for activists.) I live in an extremely bourgeois area where the only people who actually care about things will lose their jobs if they speak up. All this being said I will keep trying. This thread has given me some ideas for organizing locals who seem to be pretty cool.