The same way a state party is taken over, just on a smaller scale: 1.) Make sure you're a registered member of the party you want to take over, and get to know some people within it if you can. 2.) Show up at a party meeting and elect candidates sympathetic to your cause as delegates. The reason the two parties are often very "out of touch" is because few people participate or even know about this process, so the shrinking pool of party insiders can chart their own course. I doubt you'd need more than 50 people to take over a midsize city. 3.) Your delegates are now the party bureaucracy. At the next convention, on the rules, platform, and primary committees, they will change the rules of the party, the policies in its platform, and the rules of the primary process, in your favor. 4.) Now that you've torn down the establishment roadblocks to outsider candidates and restored democracy within the party, run candidates you support in the next primary, and vote for them. Again, you don't need many people, turnout is typically very low because most people don't know anything about the local political process. A few thousand would do it in even the largest cities. 5.) Once your candidates win, which they will because your delegates at this point have hopefully exercised their power to decide how candidates get funded and which candidates get funded, your mayor/council/commissioners are legally the head of the local party. They have full power over it as the executives, with your delegates acting as the legislature (and in the case of the rules committee, the judiciary), and can complete the purge of the old guard. 100% of party members can be your supporters at this point if you want, though I personally wouldn't go that far because I think it would be an undemocratic abuse of power. 6.) Once you've taken over enough local parties, the delegates they each send to the state convention will also be your supporters. They will reform and take over the state party, and begin work to remake the state legislature via candidate selection and financing. Bernie Sanders supporters successfully did this to the California, Washington, and Oregon state Democratic parties. *Most important:* Make sure you have an overwhelming majority of supporters at the state convention! The Sanders supporters in California only partially succeeded because they went to the convention with a narrow majority. They needed a supermajority to throw out the convention chair, strongly pro-Clinton and staunchly Centrist former Senator Barbara Boxer. They got plenty of their policies through, because they were still the majority, but are still fighting for control of the state party because Boxer was able to rig voice votes, prevent some proposals from coming to the floor, and hijack the platform committee. If the Sanders majority had been 60-40 instead of 52-48, Boxer wouldn't have made it through the first 5 minutes of the convention.
@@bridgetownabridged I asked a question on this video about how to take over a local government, someone wrote a long comment explaining how. Do you think you could make a video on the action plan he laid out. I think many people would love to watch it. Just a content idea. Good day sir.
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how do you take over a local government
The same way a state party is taken over, just on a smaller scale:
1.) Make sure you're a registered member of the party you want to take over, and get to know some people within it if you can.
2.) Show up at a party meeting and elect candidates sympathetic to your cause as delegates. The reason the two parties are often very "out of touch" is because few people participate or even know about this process, so the shrinking pool of party insiders can chart their own course. I doubt you'd need more than 50 people to take over a midsize city.
3.) Your delegates are now the party bureaucracy. At the next convention, on the rules, platform, and primary committees, they will change the rules of the party, the policies in its platform, and the rules of the primary process, in your favor.
4.) Now that you've torn down the establishment roadblocks to outsider candidates and restored democracy within the party, run candidates you support in the next primary, and vote for them. Again, you don't need many people, turnout is typically very low because most people don't know anything about the local political process. A few thousand would do it in even the largest cities.
5.) Once your candidates win, which they will because your delegates at this point have hopefully exercised their power to decide how candidates get funded and which candidates get funded, your mayor/council/commissioners are legally the head of the local party. They have full power over it as the executives, with your delegates acting as the legislature (and in the case of the rules committee, the judiciary), and can complete the purge of the old guard. 100% of party members can be your supporters at this point if you want, though I personally wouldn't go that far because I think it would be an undemocratic abuse of power.
6.) Once you've taken over enough local parties, the delegates they each send to the state convention will also be your supporters. They will reform and take over the state party, and begin work to remake the state legislature via candidate selection and financing. Bernie Sanders supporters successfully did this to the California, Washington, and Oregon state Democratic parties.
*Most important:* Make sure you have an overwhelming majority of supporters at the state convention! The Sanders supporters in California only partially succeeded because they went to the convention with a narrow majority. They needed a supermajority to throw out the convention chair, strongly pro-Clinton and staunchly Centrist former Senator Barbara Boxer. They got plenty of their policies through, because they were still the majority, but are still fighting for control of the state party because Boxer was able to rig voice votes, prevent some proposals from coming to the floor, and hijack the platform committee. If the Sanders majority had been 60-40 instead of 52-48, Boxer wouldn't have made it through the first 5 minutes of the convention.
@@mrubuntuking5257 Epic response. You should make a 7 step video series covering this topic.
Great video bro, public libraries are lit.
thank you I'll share this with my students love it.
Thanks duude.
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Share it with them!
Statistically speaking, probably from the UA-cam Search, though I get a lot of traffic from Google as well apparently!
@@bridgetownabridged I asked a question on this video about how to take over a local government, someone wrote a long comment explaining how. Do you think you could make a video on the action plan he laid out. I think many people would love to watch it. Just a content idea.
Good day sir.
this is the most cringe video ever