Originally Posted by kane

If candidates who really want to affect change are serious they should take a page out of the tea party book. I'm not a Tea Party fan. I think it was an interesting idea at first, but it got corrupted by the republican party. However, they did it as it needs to be done. You can't make wholesale change as one person who suddenly appears on the radar and makes claims. What you need to do is build a grass roots organization and start locally. Big change scares people. However, if you can get local and state officials elected using your platform then you can slowly build up the familiarity with your policies and ideas and you can even be working to put them into action. You then move up and get congressmen and senators elected and eventually you have enough power that you can put a presidential candidate out there and they would have a legit chance of winning.