Even then, it kinda seems like the DSA politicians are more interested in shifting the Democrats platform than making the DSA into its own party.
Path of least resistance towards ballot access.
In Ohio it requires something like 5% of the vote in the previous election to even have access to the ballot. So you have to get through your first cycle and ask people to throw away their vote before you even become ballot eligible. If you convince enough people for ballot access, you then have to convince them over the next 4 years that they didn’t throw away their vote, despite the hate theyll get from do-nothing centrists blaming them for absolutely everything.
It’s much easier to take over a party that has no policy.
Path of least resistance towards ballot access.
In Ohio it requires something like 5% of the vote in the previous election to even have access to the ballot. So you have to get through your first cycle and ask people to throw away their vote before you even become ballot eligible. If you convince enough people for ballot access, you then have to convince them over the next 4 years that they didn’t throw away their vote, despite the hate theyll get from do-nothing centrists blaming them for absolutely everything.
It’s much easier to take over a party that has no policy.