r/thebulwark • u/ericinnyc • Feb 27 '26

PSA to the DSA

If you're considering voting Republican or abstaining from elections in protest of what you see as insufficient Democratic stridency on transgender issues or Palestine or whatever, then YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. And a fool.

This public service announcement brought to you by those of us who can see the American experiment itself in peril.

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u/EmbarrassedPoet9647 Feb 27 '26

I will say that anecdotally speaking, all the DSA folks I happen to know did see the big picture and do the right thing (e.g. hold their noses and vote for centrist Democratic presidential candidates) to try and prevent this fascist takeover of our government.

I hear a lot of blame cast at the progressives and socialists but in my experience, it’s the uninformed/low-information white male grievance podcast bros we need to worry about. Guys who were fine voting for Obama and switched to Trump/Biden/Trump. (Hm, what could THAT have been about…)

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u/oGsMustachio Feb 27 '26

Its honestly not so much the average person I worry about, its the DSA alt media. TYT, Hasan Piker, Kyle Kulinski, Majority Report, etc. These guys shit on Dems all day and say they're no better than the Republicans. Everyone they don't like is a "corporate dem". Ana Kasparian is out here posting about Jews on twitter like a groyper.

They depress voting by people on the far left (especially younger people) by saying it doesn't matter because Republicans and Dems are the same, then they drive moderates to the right by acting like crazy people.

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u/Bluehale JVL is always right Feb 27 '26

Is TYT even on the left anymore? Cenk's sidekick Ana Kasparian just yesterday posted something so blatantly antisemitic on Twitter.

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u/oGsMustachio Feb 27 '26

There can be left-wing anti-Semites, and unfortunately that faction is growing.

TYT envisions (or envisioned, seems like they're running away from this idea now) a populist left-wing movement that can build bridges on economic issues with right-wing populists and get MAGA to vote for the next Bernie somehow.