I wish there was an option for Social Democrat, because that's what fits me. Bernie made Democratic Socialism famous but I don't think most people who define themselves this way understand the difference.
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I mean, Americans can just look at Europe. It's basically entirely social democracy. I don't understand why entire America is pretending social democracy is some sort of socialist boogeyman...
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This sounds like the same kind of splitting hairs that results in fighting between “leftists” and “liberals”. As long as we continue to bicker and come up with all of these ridiculous purity tests then we’re never going to defeat the right.
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The function of the DSA, although they may seem extremist to you, is to pull the Overton window back to the left, where it was before virulent McCarthyism. Watch and learn.
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MAGA successfully took over a major political party. It's our turn now!
Those in the 2000s saw the Tea party as the start of this fascist bullshit.
MAGA has a president. DSA has a mayor...
Its better if the movement is decentralized, Trump will croak some day and MAGA will have to pivot or collapse.
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If the DSA did more than attack liberals I might be inclined to think this is a good thing, but so far they can't win in any district that isn't overwhelmingly blue. Not sure how they're going to beat back conservatives.
Idk, I think the DSA is only going to succeed in fracturing the Dems. We'll see.
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So you're telling me that a third of democrats now support open borders and public control of large corporations?
I'm not sure those are the two basic pillars of DSA. Well, in fact, they are not. But I was being polite.
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Probably more than that. What we've got is a third of democrats who would accept a DSA member implementing those policies, rather than waiting for a Hillary or Obama to get 99 1/2 votes in the Senate before passing the "Deregulate immigration slightly and maybe consider a public option for large utilities Act of 2052"
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A THIRD of our Base Identifies as THAT! OBVIOUSLY the Path to VICTORY is to WIN over ~~them!~~ the ZERO Percent of our Base who are MAGA!
-The DNC!
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That's it? I really expected it to be more. I now suspect that might be an over inflation or misunderstanding
Here's the poll: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28524353-cnn-july-poll-conducted-by-ssrs-midterms-parties/
How are they drawing the conclusion that "A third of Democrats now identify as democratic socialists" from that?
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I mean, what's 1/3 of like ten people?
Who actually identifies as Democrats? The majority of the US population is wayy too progressive to identify as a Democrat.
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Good.
This is just them pivoting because they know they need to rejuvenate the party
Turns out they always did, they just didn’t realize their views aligned that way.