If you just want to 'pressure' rather than replace elected officials, 'Bart', besides more militant slogans and rhetoric, what's the difference between you and any variety of liberal?

Electoral politics are dead? To whom? You and a few friends? As long as there are millions, especially a majority, who believe in going to the polls, even if they only have piss-poor choices, rather than engaging in armed insurrection, we have to be on 'the long march through the institutions' with them. if only to exhaust the possibilities.

Combine elections with mass action, yes. Find better candidates, programs, coalitions and parties, yes.

But hand over the whole arena to the right voluntarily? No, unless you're intent on demonstrating in a new era one of Lenin's oft-repeated points, 'Scratch an anarchist, and you'll find a liberal underneath.'