The vast majority of elected officials in the United States are at best obstacles to progress who do nothing but participate in an ideological see-saw from center-right to far-right and at worst reactionary demagogues who passionately engage in eviscerating various threads of the social safety net. These elected officials have official power that flows from their office. Many of them have no mandate to lead and merely benefit from the understandable apathy of their constituents. In order to unseat a candidate a campaign needs volunteers, a solid strategy that is actually executed, and, of course, money. Independent campaigns can and do raise money and the amount of money needed is not as much as one might think in local and state-level elections. On top of this many elections are actually run very inefficiently, incorrectly, and mechanically. The barriers to running an effective and successful far left electoral campaign are actually not as high as they seem at first glance.
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