Solidarity Forever!!!

Interesting article

Thanks for posting!

But we are regularly told that socialism has been consigned to the trash heap of history.

That the US has no taste for socialism.

Years of hand wringing over "electability" seems to be proven wrong. So many instances of conventionally unelectable candidates beating GOP incumbents.

Electable candidates are the ones that are willing to run and have the stamina to stand by their Democratic convictions.

From his 22 year old campaign manager.

From the delegate-elect “Honestly, there are a lot of candidates who are playing it safe, but playing it safe is not the safe bet anymore,”

I'm impressed. I suppose there really is only one way to know for sure if a candidate is electable.

I'm sick of the purposeful divisiveness. We must unite. These folks are our allies

the river flows both ways, chief

I especially want to take the orange shitstain and his band of traitors out of the people's house. Anything or anyone who gets us closer to that goal is my ally.

Continue to shit on any who dare criticize. Politics is the ugly business of sausage making so I'm not bothered one bit by those who use a different recipe than me. As long as we win

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And it is amusing to see the same "leftists" on twitter who were wishing and praying for Dems to get routed become absolutely orgasmic now that one of 'their' people won yesterday (I'm looking in Glenn Fucking Greenwald's direction, among others)... The fact that they'd never heard of him before last night much less did jack shit to help him win notwithstanding... And don't think I've magically forgotten about DFA trying to backstab us in the 11th hour, either.

Oh, and for the record, that whole "Carter won with zero help from the party" bullshit has been debunked... Won't stop the usual suspects from spreading it, though

I want to get the fucking traitors out. Either figure out a way to get over the shit of 2016 and work together or get out of the way.

Politics is a shitty business. Grow a thick skin and get working

I can tell you that I've seen it from both sides. The gaslighting is going on in both camps, neither really has the moral high ground. I don't think the Democrats would be wise to shun democratic-socialists such as myself. Even though DSA is a separate party, there's still the DEMOCRATIC aspect of democratic socialism. A number of DSA members were Democrats at one point.

A majority of Millennials, many of whom will be 30+ in 2020 are favoring socialism (and it's various flavors) over capitalism. That's because capitalism has failed my generation and too many of us have grown up under the perverted form of capitalism known as crony corporatism. I think this is where you see the generational disconnect between the older generations and the younger generations. Older generations remember a time when it was easier to survive. A lot of people in my generation have struggled their entire lives and capitalism isn't providing any solutions. People are looking for alternatives. You can see it all over social media. If the Dems want to be successful long-term they'll support Democrats who have a Democratic Socialist flavor. It'll do them wonders.

And this isn't "far-left." Understand that this country has gone so far to the extreme Right that Democratic-Socialists in America are global moderates...maybe global Leftists...but definitely not EXTREME left. Democratic Socialists support things like Medicare-For-All which other countries around the world already have. The Overton Window has pushed this country to the brink of right-wing extremism. Our government has become fundamentalist in nature and everybody sees it except the sycophants on the Right.

While I don't advocate that the Democratic Party become a socialist party, I do advocate that the Democratic Party not be anti-socialist and that it be a party of socialists and non-socialists.

Most Americans have no idea how socialist we are. They love the benefits but hate the word.

I'm also pro-government. Government is meant to support all it's citizens and instead of budget cuts so the rich can get tax cuts, let's build an America for all Americans.

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Carter came to his political ideology recently—as in, just last year. “I was actually already running by the time I considered socialism as an economic philosophy,” he told me. “My introduction to it actually came through the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders. He went out there and said, ‘I’m a democratic socialist. Here’s what that means: It means I believe in strong unions, health care for everybody, and an end to discrimination.’ Well, that’s what I believe in, too. I dug a little more into it, and I realized a lot of the problems we have in today’s society reflected in electoral politics are symptoms of economic problems.”

Carter said he’s “always been a bit to the left of where the Democratic Party was, and a little dissatisfied with what they were doing on a large scale, and never knew why. It wasn’t until Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign that I put two and two together. I looked up to guys like FDR and Democrats of that era who were really rooted in working class politics. They had these mass movements of union workers who stood up and said ‘we’re not going to be mistreated by corporate interests anymore,’ and they were able to achieve 50 year of stability and prosperity for this country. I always wondered why Democrats couldn’t act like that again.”
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The Democratic party doesn't want socialists. America does.

Yup