Build local organizations get get people elected to school boards and county commissions, then work up to seats on the state legislature and the US Congress.
Once the machine is in place, then go for the Big Seat, when there will be a realistic chance of doing something other than helping a smelly hippie get into the White House.
Exactly!!
It takes a lot of work to build a new party. A lot more work than it would to change one with the machine already in place.
How is that working for you?</sarcasm>