Congress passed a symbolic resolution on Tuesday to condemn socialism — a move that saw eight Democrats cross the aisle to back the GOP on the measure.
The vote, which has no actual effect on public policy, was swiftly mocked by observers on social media.
“Voting to condemn an economic system that doesn’t exist in our country, to protect the one which we live under that exploits the working class to benefit the obscenely wealthy,” wrote Melanie D’Arrigo, executive director of Campaign for New York Health. “This was Congress’ priority as 60% of Americans struggle to afford food, housing and healthcare. Embarrassing.”
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A threat to who, exactly?
The Democratic Party
Oh? Well that’s good then. The DSA is the only active political group we have that’s giving at the bare minimum lip service to taking care of the population instead of enriching billionaires. If that’s a threat to a party, then that party sucks and shouldn’t be in charge of anything.
I’m glad you’re happy with losing elections to MAGA in exchange for some lip service then.
Wild that you’ll just say it out loud, but here we are.
OH! Well my mistake, I didn’t realize advocating for the population and winning elections is what’s going to keep MAGA in power. Let’s just give all our money to Musk and Bezos and they’ll surely take up the mantle you want the government to not. Brilliant!
What elections are they winning besides Primaries in deeply blue districts?
How are they a threat if they aren’t winning elections?
I’ll gladly answer your question after you answer mine.
Michigan is definitely not a deep blue district.
Yeah, fair. And we’ll see how campaigning with a tankie plays out for AES. I’m sure moderates in a state like that love that kind of rhetoric.
You got it backwards. The Dems are losing because they support the status quo, not progressive policies like the growing number of millennial and Z voters want. They’re the ones falling further behind because of this free-market fascist kleptocracy crap. You have Dems engaging in insider trading, supporting Israel, obeying corporate masters, breaking ranks and siding with the GOP/oligarchs… establishment Dems progressively look more and more like the GOP as time passes.
Where are they losing for those reasons? What evidence do we have that DSA-backed candidates will flip those seats in the general?
Mmm, a nice healthy serving of both-parties-are-the-same slopulism, with no examples given or reasons why the DSA would fix these issues.
They actually have a coherent platform. Go look at it. The DSA-backed guys like Mamdani are doing good stuff.
Meanwhile, the dems platform mainly consists of orange man bad, while ignoring polling that shows most Americans want universal health coverage , not the half-assed public/private ACA nonsense that fails to keep healthcare prices in check, while continuing to allow the insurance industry to profit off something that is a basic human right.
You have centrist democrats in battleground and red states resisting climate change timelines when nearly two-thirds of Americans want climate change addressed.
Meanwhile, you have the DSA proposing really good stuff, like eliminating the senate to get rid of disproportionate representation of red states with small populations, who have also gerrymandered the heck out of the electoral map to gain further advantage and shut out the power of a majority vote.
If you don’t want progressives to run a coup within the Dem ranks, then actually use a good platform 🤷♂️ They’re the ones trying to get rid of the corprocrats.
I have. It’s in line with their Marxist-Leninist ideology. Has the greatest hits like:
Mamdani is alright. But especially in the beginning, people glaze him for things he didn’t have anything to do with, or that’s just part of the job that any mayor would have done. Stuff like “balancing the budget”, tiktoks about potholes being filled after tweeting at him, childcare expansion, transit upgrades, etc.
But that’s part of the vanguard party strategy. Sell the “see, we’re not so bad, we just want healthcare and free busses lol” narrative to garner populist support.
They actually have a coherent platform. Go look at it.
But your source says “35% of all adults favor a single national health insurance system run by the government.”?
And yet Biden passed the largest climate and clean-energy legislation ever in US history during his term. Didn’t get much media attention for some reason…
And how is that position reflecting in the polls? Is it looking likely to swing any elections?
The vast majority of the positions these DSA-backed candidates hold that resonate with the voter base are pretty well in line with the general positions of the Democratic party at large. But they serve it up with a healthy dose of “fuck the system, man” and people lap it up.
Meanwhile, look at the disaster that was Graham Platner. Apparently they’re cool with a nazi mercenary rapist so long as he isn’t a gasp establishment dem.
And then you have their unhinged pundits, who AES chose to campaign with, and refuses to strongly condemn for their behavior like saying America deserved 9/11, cheering on terrorist attacks, platforming terrorists, etc. Now their even starting to call for violence against liberals for being anti-DSA. All of which is being used by Republicans as free easy ammo to smear the whole party.
I think you’re a confused republican.
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A threat to amoral capitalist kleptocrats. Gotcha. We need to protect them, for sure.
Mmmm slopulism.
They are threat to the democratic party? The party that lost to a reality show clown without the DSA? The democratic party that’s sat idly by as that clown turns the US into a circus? That’s the party you are so worried about?
They also lost that election without running an actual penguin for President. Doesn’t mean they would have won if they did. Some would argue they would have performed even worse. Penguins have a pretty incoherent policy platform, after all.
The Republicans have a majority and a packed Supreme Court.
A threat to who exactly?
What happens if they gain some power? People get health care? Kids with no lunch at school get fed?
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Why do you want to take health care from people and food out of the mouths of children? why do you want to support war criminals? wtf is wrong with you?
I don’t.
I don’t.
I might be a little dehydrated. You?