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The Democrats are not smartening up. The weak kneed leadership will be getting replaced by the populist message of Trump but coming from the left, people like
by aorloff 1mo ago
The Democrats are not smartening up.
The weak kneed leadership will be getting replaced by the populist message of Trump but coming from the left, people like Mamdani, the DSA candidates, etc.
The people clearly want leaders who will say : we will use political tools to help the economic situation of the poor and middle class.
Everyone from Jon Ossoff to Angie Nixon has some version of this message and its resonating
- 8note 1mo agoDSA are democrats. clearly they are smartening up
- chermi 1mo agoSmartening up in the sense of winning elections? Or serving their constituents?
- YZF 1mo ago[flagged]
- mittensc 1mo agoThey are part of the democratic party so they are democrats. As for their agenda, you are wrong.
- db48x 1mo agoThey themselves literally say out loud that they want to abolish our existing institutions. If you want to debate that point, go debate the DSA candidates themselves.
- YZF 1mo agoI'm going to believe what they say: https://www.dsausa.org/ https://www.dsausa.org/ "The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with over 100,000 members and chapters in all 50 states. We believe that working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few." "Capitalism is a system designed by the owning class to exploit the rest of us for their own profit. We must replace it with democratic socialism, a system where ordinary people have a real voice in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and society." "democratic socialism" is an oxymoron. socialism conflicts directly with democratic values. At the very least there is no pre-existing example of democracy and socialism working side by side. All previous socialist "experiments" were not democracies.
- weakfish 1mo agoDSA is its own party; DSA affiliated candidates only run as democrats because the US system basically all but disallows third party success. I guarantee you that DSA members would not associate themselves with neoliberal Democrats at all, given the choice.
- stackghost 1mo agoHow is that different than the Tea Party republicans?
- weakfish 1mo agoI didn't say it was. I don't know enough about the Tea Party to confidently give my opinion, I am a bit too young to have been politically aware when they were in their heyday as far as I know.
- aorloff 1mo agoUnfortunately, I have to disagree. Smartening up would have been the Democratic Party ejecting Swalwell because he was a known creep. Instead he was the front runner for the CA Governor until like a couple months before the election when scandal, NOT the party cleaning house, took him out.
- delusional 1mo ago> he populist message of Trump but coming from the left, people like Mamdani, the DSA candidates, etc. Leading but honest question: Are those candidates the same as Trump? I do not see how they share anything other than strategy and spin, and those things don't make policy.
- aorloff 1mo agoStrategy and spin don't make policy ? Wag the Dog (movie) came out like 3 decades ago