An emphasis on local and state action is not unreasonable, but the history of insurgent parties that do not field some sort of national ticket is not especially good. Rather understandably, the two dominant parties use the opportunity to rip any threatening third party to pieces.
As to building up a power base, any decision to run a lot of local candidates won't mean beans if you don't have enough engaged people to even fill the ticket, much what you need to actually elect people. None of it matters unless there's a serious organization with an engaged membership behind it.
Ditto the talk about a united front of the left in the elections. This should have happened fifty years ago but there were reasons it didn't. Those same reasons are there. They will never take any initiatives to cooperate. This will not happen until there's a genuine pull towards that unity from the outside of these groups. The great historic failure of the Greens actually lies right there.
