>Vote Democratic for local representative, congress, senate,
>and president. Once those can align we can steer harder to the
>left.
>
>Or don't and wind up with 2 - possibly 4 more right wing
>lunatics on the supreme court.

gop couldnt drive hard right without first capturing state power and excluding likely opposition from voting, killing ethics/campaign finance oversight, gerrymandering to artificially inflate their power/majority, etc.

while dems focus on changing policy to win elections...repubs focus on changing actual elections.

before dems can even begin to think about passing any policy...we have to focus on changing actual elections and tilting the balance of access back to likely dem voters to put us in a better position to accrue power at all levels. fortunately...voting rights are part of the dem state and national mantle now (automatic voter registration, nonpartisan redistricting, felon re-enfranchisement, etc).