All of the “DSA candidates” who are disavowing the platform and canceling their membership aren’t doing so bc the platform says “timeliness is white supremacy.” They’re doing it bc the platform backs defunding the police, senate abolition, and defunding the pentagon, and you don’t get to believe in those things AND be a democrat.
This is about throwing BLM & anti imperialism under the bus, and anyone who pretends this is about anything else is lying.
The two most prominent DSA electeds, AOC and Zohran Mamdani, are betraying in broad daylight the movement against racism and police brutality.
There is zero prospect for movements to succeed in slashing the $120-billion budget of U.S. police departments, shutting down ICE, and ending the genocide in Gaza unless we fight against both the Democratic and Republican parties. This also means exposing the progressive and DSA Democratic Party politicians when they act as gatekeepers and betray our movements.
I understand the pragmatic approach of needing all endorsements to win in November, fine.
But embracing the person who spat in our faces in 2024 and never took any accountability in her role perpetuating a GENOCIDE, a genocide she still supports as far as I know, is a bad look to say the least.
She stands for everything Abdul says he’s running against. She also LOST Michigan in 2024, so I don’t understand the benefit of boasting this way about her endorsement.
I hope this isn’t the beginning of a pivot to the right.
It would behoove these insurgent progressive candidates to remember WHY they are ascendant. It’s not bc they are leading the shift to the left but because the movement has led the way, along with the sacrifices of the Palestinian people.
Palestinians have been annihilated on our phone screens for almost 3 years. To allow for the revival of the very people who helped mass murder them would be an unforgivable and shameful betrayal of every orphaned child amputee still dodging U.S.-funded bombs in Gaza.
In fairness, Krystal also used the Adam Smith interview to moot the value/strategy of the DSA. But I agree that, in both instances, it was a missed opportunity to highlight the contrast between candidates in an important race which DSA, notably, has not weighed in on.
Put another way: Why is discussing the DSA more important than discussing the stakes of a race between America's most successful socialist elected official and a Zionist warmonger?
Note that both AOC and Mamdani have said they support Jefferies as speaker, & Mamdani agitated to discourage a primary challenger against him.
All this as Jefferies coordinates a "rotating villain" strategy to pass the enmeshment of US and Israeli military technology via Section 219.
Trump sent a 19-year-old American girl to die for israel in the Middle East.
Meanwhile his 20 year old son is making tens of millions from insider trading.
Where is the revolution?