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DSA or GTFO IMO.
DSA?
Democratic Socialists of America
Democratic Socialists of America. They're a radlib progressive organization that supports progressive democrats
DSA == radlib? That's not the impression I've gotten.
Radlib is a term for someone who holds socially progressive views and adopts leftist and radical esthetics, but supports free market capitalism. The picture I have in my head is someone wearing a pussy hat and blue hair celebrating Meloni was elected because she's a woman. Is this how you mean it?
EDIT: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radlib If you disagree with me and have a wiktionary account, you might want to edit this page.
I do agree that DSA, as a whole, aren't generally socialists, but I also think it's a little disingenuous to say they're they same as the Hilary cadre which is more what you went on the describe. They're certainly to the left of them. If the entire Democratic party was aligned with DSA vs the more staunch neoliberals in the mainstream, what a wonderful problem we'd be faced with compared to where we are now...
A cursory glance says that this is radical in the idea that infrastructure should be owned by the people instead of sold to them at the highest cost they can afford. This does not appear to be an org that uses threats and violence to persuade people.
So, radical like different, not radical like guns and bombs.
In other words, as moderate as can fucking be. In actual reality, it's the establishment Democrats who are radical in the wrong direction.
Yes, that's how I meant it. Radlibs are not revolutionary, but tends to be part of the pipeline towards revolutionary anticapitalism.
DSA has a hundred thousand members which is about 0.0333% of the US population.
A snowball has a higher chance of surviving in hell then that party becoming relevant in the next hundred years.
Membership was only ~6,000 members in 2015 compared ~100,000 now. Almost all of that gained in recently direct response to Donald Trump. But you can dismiss a massive and sudden grassroots change if you want. That's what the DNC has done for the last 30+ years to instead just do whatever their donors want, and dangle various social issues as their sole differentiator, unless those conflict with corporate donors.
the democrat party is made of many subgroups that people affiliate with officially and unofficially. that ~100k is definitely underrepresented. of any accepted group, the DSA represents my interests the best. I ain't never seen any enrollment paperwork for it.
They're already relevant. That party of a hundred thousand has become a household name among the Democratic voting base because of the insurgent campaigns they've been running and winning against the DNC establishment.
All you're saying is that they should get even more support than they currently have because despite being small they've had a noticeable (and good) impact on American politics.
No what I’m saying is we should concentrate on the DNC like how MAGA took over the republicans.
Why the fuck do you think they're endorsing candidates in DNC primaries, genius? They're literally doing exactly what you suggest.
The comment above clearly disagrees with you so maybe try reading comments before you start calling my intelligence into question.
I didn't reply to them, I replied to you.
You sure did.
Nah, fuck the DNC. The current failures of the democratic party are specifically because of the DNC. They're more interested in serving corporations than the people who vote for them.
This is why leftists will never be a political bloc with any power.
We don’t need the whole US to be members of the DSA, we need members of the DSA to take over the Democratic Party
so you’re saying there’s a chance