I saw an official account using Lenin “telling the Bolsheviks to vote for liberals” to justify voting democrat too :data-laughing:
I saw an official account using Lenin “telling the Bolsheviks to vote for liberals” to justify voting democrat too :data-laughing:
NYC did have a DSA member as mayor, David Dinkins from 1990 to 1993. Although on top of his name that sounds fictional, he was a cop apologist and generally sucked. Even still the city council worked against him and set up Guiliani to become mayor.
There was also Thomas Van Lear, socialist mayor of Minneapolis 1917 to 1919. He spent his entire time in office trying to stop the cops from killing everyone in a labor union. Then he lost his re-election and became a liberal cheerleader for Woodrow Wilson.
you're right that any electoral victories gotta focus on the lower offices first. Getting to executive offices is pointless if there's no base of support.
The DSA is kind of doing that in Chicago. They had six people on city council, out of 50, but one guy got booted from DSA because he voted to approve the cop school our dumb ass mayor wants to build.
That's actually a good look from the Chicago DSA. Any American socialist party is screwed if it doesn't have the ability and willingness to expel representatives that go against the party line.