https://twitter.com/TwinCitiesDSA/status/1455978004212068358
ya, tho 44% of the city voting to disband the police department is still something. these three wards actually had the highest margin for voting for that ballot as youd expect. at least the rent control proposal passed
With that much support it feels like just better education / messaging and you'd get a majority. It's definitely encouraging to see
All that means is that the city will burn again in a few years. They didn't learn their lesson when one police station was burned down. Now 33% of the police force has quit, they can't recruit anyone to replace them, and the violence has just continued. The next time things erupt they'll have fewer cops to beat down the people.
As much as I am happy for them. I do think the left would do well in officially creating their own party, or at least link a few local parties together. I don't mean to say this as a way to distract from their victory, but with fascists organizing at a rapid rate and electoralism crumbling before more people, there needs to be a true left alternative to fascism.
There are plenty but I dont think its really possible to really sustain a separate third party in the US under these electoral systems. DSA is about as close to a relevant electoral "third party" as you're gonna get frankly, and class independence and power isn't built cause of a ballot line, its build with organizing.
It would be cool if it happened, but as it exists now the the working class at large doesn't participate in party politics, so all of the projects to create a leftist party run into the same problem of just having a bunch of students out in front and a scattering of other people who primarily join because they radicalized themselves online.
Lots of wins across the country in local elections yesterday, you can see all the nationally endorsed ones here, 23 so far:
https://washingtonsocialist.mdcdsa.org/station-z/dsa-races-2021
Also something like almost 50 in total including only locally endorsed ones.
How are some of these candidates getting crazy high proportions of the vote? Like some people got 100% of the vote.
i think both Abdul and Justin won the dem primary and had no republican challenger in the general
