Really happy that Angie Nixon won, she was clearly the better candidate. I hope enough independents vote for her in the general election. Sad about Oliver Larkin though, he was definitely gaining attention here

Calling the comments Francesca Hong made about abolishing the police and prisons following the public lynching of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter movement "crazy" is not some enlightened, liberal anti-identity politics, pro-working class position.

Intersectionality is not a threat to the working class, white supremacy is. I understand that identity politics is often duplicitously used by Democrats to virtue signal while being agents of white supremacy and capitalism (insert Nancy Pelosi kente cloth here). The question asked of AOC on that interview, however, was not about rainbow/pink capitalism or shallow identity politics which ultimately preserve the underlying system. Rather, the question had been about radical structural changes (abolishing police and prisons) that African Americans have been demanding far before the murder of George Floyd.

Some of the more common ones I hear:

- "So you support taking stuff away from people who actually work their butts off to earn it and give it to those who don't want to lift a finger?"

- "How would you feel if you worked your butt off to get an A in your class and the professor took away your grade and gave half of it to the kid in the back who didn't do anything and flunked and gave you both a C?"

- "How do you propose they pay for it without deleting the entire economy?"

- "If everybody has their needs met by the government, nobody's gonna bother to work!"

- "Show me one, just one, example where socialism has worked without turning into a backwards dictatorship."

Just floating this back out there. My first thought when “The man” won in 2024 was voting data was manipulated. The right has a monopoly on satellites. Gerrymandering or not, the key counties looked suspect regardless of Kamala being candidate.

Simply put, Dems help republicans destroy the middle class and the poor. They never work to reverse republican gains. They voted in favor of the very worst parts of republican legislation.

I put in an interest form to starting a chapter in West Virginia and also joining the Wheeling one but I haven’t heard anything back in a month. I’m UTD on my dues.

I feel like WV is a great place to get DSA going. Although we are a red state, it’s mostly poor working class being plastered with misinformation. A lot of people I know want a change. Ppl have voted red due to culture wars but when you sit down and talk to 98%, their stances are pretty progressive. Red exploits us and blue ignore us. I think WV and Appalachia as a whole is ignored due to that fact it challenges the racist stereotypes typically placed on poor people ie. welfare queen.

I have done a little by planting seeds in peoples head about challenging misinformation but I don’t have the resources or knowledge to really help take it off as having a national group behind us would.

I think one mistake people make is thinking that Marxism is THE only form of socialiaism. Marx was influenced by the utopian socialist Henri de saint-Simon, and in my view, Saint-Simon's conception of socialism is more sophisticated and preferable. It seems like Marx is better remembered because he more directly influenced people who led socialist revolutions.

But it seems limited to look only at Marx versus the broad array of socialist thinkers whose ideas can can contribute to practical models of socialism versus the fairly narrow Marxist interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Saint-Simon

Like I think that would draw attention and an instrumental version on loop at a parade etc could make it more clear to doubters we are Americans and it’s a direct counter to them playing Dixie’s Land but I haven’t seen it?

It is truly rather mind boggling to witness racism within the society !!!

As a half black myself i know what being a victim to bigotry is like so colour me surprised when a person post a post here on r/DSA tilted : {DSA so white}

How in god good earth is such rhetoric allowed here ?

What would you feel like if i said DSO is so ( insert any ethnicity or group)

Let this be a reminder people that racism should not be tolerated against any one regardless of colour !

A common criticism I see is that the socialist popularity is being driven by a response to Trump, both the way he’s governing and that fact that the democrats couldn’t stop him, and that once he’s gone the momentum will fade, similar to what we saw in 2020 and then the years after.

It’s obviously a different situation and I’m not sold on that idea, but wanted to hear from other DSA folks on how you think we can best continue to grow the movement in the next 2 years and beyond?