If you’re active in organizing with DSA, you’re literally not the problem. The people we’re criticizing would call the DSA “fascist-lite” for not being far enough left. You hinted at acknowledging those people exist in your edit, but I don’t think you realize how prevalent they are.
Don’t take it personally when people criticize them, because they’re not talking about the DSA. Literally no one would call the DSA tankies. Tankies hate the DSA because it proves to people that you can have socialism without authoritarianism. Tankies gatekeep and purity test leftist specifically to keep democratic socialists out of leftist spaces, because they don’t want people realizing that the two can go together.
Your critiques of Kamala Harris’s campaign aren’t without merit, but they’re a bit misplaced in this discussion. No one here is saying she was an ideal candidate. But we had two choices: trump or harris. No matter how the election turned out, we were going to get one or the other. Many of us took the harm reduction approach, knowing that opposing trump was worth voting for someone who wasn’t great but was not as bad.
We can relitigate this till we’re all blue in the face, but I don’t think it would be productive. What’s done is done, and the current political climate is different from the one in 2024. We have an incumbent Republican trifecta with which many people are displeased, and the pendulum is swinging back into the Democrats’ favor right when the internal tides of the Democratic party are shifting towards the DSA and progressive caucus.
There’s a lot of momentum right now building for progressive candidates and democratic socialists, so let’s not waste that by fighting with each other. Centrist Dems want that. Republicans want that. Let’s not give it to them
I think it’s reasonable to warn people to look out for bad actors stoking division by using trite catchphrases like “both sides,” “blue fash,” “fascist lite,” etc. Let’s focus on the positive momentum. Let’s not squander it on purity tests and infighting
If you’re active in organizing with DSA, you’re literally not the problem. The people we’re criticizing would call the DSA “fascist-lite” for not being far enough left. You hinted at acknowledging those people exist in your edit, but I don’t think you realize how prevalent they are.
Don’t take it personally when people criticize them, because they’re not talking about the DSA. Literally no one would call the DSA tankies. Tankies hate the DSA because it proves to people that you can have socialism without authoritarianism. Tankies gatekeep and purity test leftist specifically to keep democratic socialists out of leftist spaces, because they don’t want people realizing that the two can go together.
Your critiques of Kamala Harris’s campaign aren’t without merit, but they’re a bit misplaced in this discussion. No one here is saying she was an ideal candidate. But we had two choices: trump or harris. No matter how the election turned out, we were going to get one or the other. Many of us took the harm reduction approach, knowing that opposing trump was worth voting for someone who wasn’t great but was not as bad.
We can relitigate this till we’re all blue in the face, but I don’t think it would be productive. What’s done is done, and the current political climate is different from the one in 2024. We have an incumbent Republican trifecta with which many people are displeased, and the pendulum is swinging back into the Democrats’ favor right when the internal tides of the Democratic party are shifting towards the DSA and progressive caucus.
There’s a lot of momentum right now building for progressive candidates and democratic socialists, so let’s not waste that by fighting with each other. Centrist Dems want that. Republicans want that. Let’s not give it to them
I think it’s reasonable to warn people to look out for bad actors stoking division by using trite catchphrases like “both sides,” “blue fash,” “fascist lite,” etc. Let’s focus on the positive momentum. Let’s not squander it on purity tests and infighting