Possible electoral experiments to get solutions before the public

Taking the experimental idea one step further elections offer a great opportunity to educate, inform and have a dialogue with the public.  Much could be learned from campaigns of candidates running on an agenda of working class solutions like those discussed here.  Evidence gathered in canvasses would be a gauge of the interest and feasibility of electoral experiments.  If people respond positively to the ideas, I can imagine them asking questions like:  Why are these ideas not being discussed in Congress?  Or, Why doesn’t someone run for Congress who supports these solutions?  Enough responses like this could be read as indication of the viability of an electoral effort.  Also note that workers in the same breath may also say it is impossible to win such demands.

Such electoral activity would be trial initiatives and not an attempt to build a political party. No political identifier would necessarily be needed for individuals to run. A case could be made for any number of identifiers, yet in keeping with the experimental intent a variety might be tried.  While winning is obviously the goal in the long run, these efforts would be designed initially to test the waters and attempt to change and broaden the public discussion within single legislative or congressional districts.

My suggestion for an identifier if needed for the trial efforts would be something like:  The Alternative Electoral Project. The word alternative could attract attention of workers a majority of whom are fed up with both the Republican and Democratic parties.  I am quite aware of the enormous undertaking that even a small-sized experiment in a congressional district would entail.  Yet I am convinced that in this historical moment there is nothing to loose by trying and everything to gain. 

Unstable and volatile times tend to be ripe with possibilities if sufficient forces and leadership come together to take advantage them.  Of course the possibilities exist for reactionary, anti-labor forces as well.  And while they have many times the resources, their ideas are becoming much less salable among the working class.  They are trying to remake and repackage them and they may succeed once again in convincing enough voters.  They will surely succeed however if there are no genuine working class solutions in the public electoral arena.