Holding electeds even marginally accountable is bad acktuallllyyy ... This is just so exhausting.

  • grandepequeno [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    The DSA is probably the most relevant socialist political organization in north america, but there's a point C.Derrick Varn makes that I find very astute and is proven by the comments in that reddit post, if the DSA ever adopts a program, regardless of what's in it, it would immediately split

      • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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        4 months ago

        Didn’t the post you’re replying to make the point that if that group obtained leadership and exercised power, it would split?

        • grandepequeno [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          if that group obtained leadership and exercised power, it would split?

          I meant more, if it clarified its direction and goal, it would split because it's big enough and does enough different things (or is a vehicle for people to do different things) that people join it for all types of reasons whether that be tenant organizing or electing progressive democrats, so people would probably leave if the org stopped facilitating one or the other

          Still true that it has a lot of potential

      • grandepequeno [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        I'm aware, it's something to look forward to but it's bound to result in a lot of soft leftists leaving because it won't be a democrat electing machine

      • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 months ago

        The DSA has set back progress for a generation acting like an arm of the DNC. It took the Bernie energy and squandered it, leaving actual leftist parties to starve and rot. fedposting working as intended.