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
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.