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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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I may get downvoted to hell for this, but I don't think it's a good idea for candidates to keep identifying as Democratic Socialists. Why not focus on the actual issues you support rather than this label?
As far as issues are concerned, I'd be interested to see how, for example, James Talarico stands up next to someone identifying as DSA. Talarico's positions seem right in line, but he's not directly associating himself at all with the term socialism. As much as I don't want it to be the case, the word socialism has been poisoned for a large segment of American society after decades of propaganda
DSA can exist in the form it does because there are no qualifications to be a Democrat, Trump can call himself a Democrat and run in the primary if he wants. Democrats are full of people who "support issues" and then won't do shit if you vote for them.
That's not how DSA works, you can't just identify as DSA, it's an organization with actual discipline and membership criteria. Zohran Mamdani had to do job interviews with a DSA committee to see if he'd be a good mayor before he could be a DSA candidate. And if he starts sucking the DSA can and has kicked politicians out. So for example Graham Planter: positions maybe seemed right, not DSA, wouldn't have gotten through the DSA process. It's a quality control label that's actually backed up by something.
That's good info. Maybe they should rebrand themselves. Leftists suck at branding, but branding is vital to winning elections
Several states have Working Families Party. IMO a better name, no mention of socialism (even though they usually endorse progressive or socialist candidates) and in some states (e.g. New York) they are legally a party, so they get their own column in the ballot on state and local level (alongside Democratic and Republican parties). DSA is not legally a party afaik.
When WFP is legally the same as Democrats they have the same quality control problem but worse, random MAGA guys can show up with $10k and pay somebody to collect enough signatures to legally make themselves the Working Families candidate without the party knowing it's happening until it's too late.
libs and liberals are slurs for the same demographics that communism and socialism are.
They already believe if you fail to vote R, you're effeminate and a traitor to the US.
And every day FOX News pumps them full of fear and hate and teaches them crime is not what you did, but who you are and what you think.
So how the heck do you think we're going to reach them by shifting to left-wing dog whistles?
yeah but its not working anymore. that was back in the days when information access was fully controlled by state. now with internet and thousands of talking heads its not possible to control it like that
It's changing for certain, but there is still a trained negative response in many Americans.
From my perspective, its not as strong, especially among younger people, but it's still there.
The Internet was a tool for the democratization of information. But with the centralization of platforms, targeted media, and billionaires taking over social media, the Internet is quickly becoming the problem. Propaganda is now personalized and refined to be as effective as possible for each individual.
I think Democratic Socialists should identify as the "Make your children trans, and Satanize them" party, just to fuck with them.