If Obama loses

[SixthSense]

48. Here's the first step

Go district by district in the House. Any Democrat in a reasonably safe district who is not 100% on our side, dump them now in favor of a peoples' candidate. Any Republican holding a seat in a Democratic district should be publicly and relentlessly exposed as a fascist and replaced with a peoples' Democrat if at all possible. (I hate that I have to qualify using the word "peoples'" but the distinction is important.) In swing districts, always work to dump the incumbent (regardless of party) in favor of a peoples' candidate, unless they are already proven to be allies. In GOP districts, go for the throat, relentlessly expose the connection between the rep and the economic damage people are experiencing - in the US of A, pocketbook issues are what matters, always - and these days more than ever!

In parallel, we need to take over the DNC and other campaign organizations for real. I don't know the policies and procedures there but I'd wager there is some way to push out the crooks and put decent people in, in their stead. If we cannot get control of these organizations, cut off all funds to them and set up new organizations to elect Democrats that we control.

It's important not to get wedded to particular people. The moment anyone accepts a donation from the corporatocracy, they should be gone, finished, kaput, and it shouldn't matter how good they were previously - only a zero tolerance policy for corporatists and corporatism will keep our coalition free from fascism. In our political system, particular people shouldn't be important - that there are people who are individually important goes to show that we're not really a democracy any more but a masqued aristocracy.

No more making excuses for those who betray us for political expedience. A few aggressive recall elections as well as the willingness to dump treasonous incumbents will serve to show we are serious.

This would be together as "Step 1" - consolidate and maximize our political strength so that we can effectively lever it to produce actual policy results. Just look at what the teabaggers did... they didn't elect more than a couple dozen reps, and it was enough to produce a major shift in policy. It worked - let's duplicate and improve on it. Playing the political game as-is hasn't worked, year after year after year after year no matter who we elect things progress in the wrong direction.

These are just off-the-cuff suggestions, I'm sure someone can improve this strategy and I hope someone will more skills in politics than I picks up the idea and runs with it.