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Even after a string of recent victories in congressional primaries by members of the Democratic Socialists of America, national Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party. The DSA’s ascent comes on the heels of a years long effort by socialists and progressive activists to steer one of America’s two major political parties toward identity politics, isolationism, and hostility to capitalism.
Democrats looking for a way to reclaim their party can find inspiration in the career of Neil Kinnock, who in the mid-1980s rescued the British Labour Party from a determined band of sectarian zealots.
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Isolationism isn’t as large of an identity of DSA as maybe it has been in the past. Most democratic socialists support aid to Ukraine for example. They just recognize that the nonsense that trump is doing with Iran and the strait of hormuz is putting the US in a bad position for no gain while raising the cost of oil and that what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people is genocide.
DSA in the United States is basically just putting a spotlight on the fact that nearly every other developed nation has free healthcare, as well as other social services like free childcare and free college education.
It doesn’t mean we stop buying and selling things or the socialist boogeyman is going to get you. He only does that if you don’t read the Communist Manifesto before bed.
Thank you so much for sharing this - you’re so right.
When you’re echoing the talking points of Zionist and fascists. It might be time to triple check you have the facts.
There are absolutely extremist on the left. And most of them hate DSA too. What actual policies of any of those supported by the DSA that have been elected to do you oppose?
Excellently stated - thank you.
“hostile takeover” using the communication of ideas and persuading people to vote — so, literally ‘democracy’. Disagree on policy all you want, but if you’ve got a problem with the act of democracy, I humbly suggest that you aren’t a “Democrat” and democrats should ignore any guidance from you.
A brief scroll through the authors other articles shows what an utter waste of time this is
The author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick
In 2008, Kirchick wrote about newsletters that contained homophobic, conspiratorial and racist material, published under the name of Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. The story again became prominent in the 2012 presidential election.
. . . Immediately after U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning’s July 30, 2013 court-martial conviction of, among other charges, violations of the Espionage Act, Kirchick wrote in the Daily News that Manning was “lucky not to be headed to the electric chair.”
Sounds like The Atlantic fucked up.
this is the bass player from the evil rockabilly band the evil business guy enters in the battle of the bands to stop the hero kids from winning the money to save the teen center
he eats burgers while the evil frontman does everything and occasionally laughs at the evil frontman’s jokes causing burger chunks to fall out of his mouth
Capitalism propaganda…
So the last decades of the UK Labour Party is the template US Democrats should be following?
Exactly the type of content I’ve come to expect from our favorite username! However, I do wonder why the official position of the DSA is to pacify Russia, up to and including ending military aid to Ukraine. https://international.dsausa.org/ukraine/
Anti-interventionism. Which is all fine and well. But I think if there was ever an excuse to support someone with military aid etc. The aggression Ukraine is facing from their fascistic neighbor, justifies it nicely. There’s nothing malicious or nefarious about it. Definitely advantageous to putler. But it is ideologically based and consistent.
