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Hi all ive made a new community for leftists alike with flairs for different parties. Please message me if u wanna add a new flair i hope we can have some good discussions

The best way I can explain what we are doing in New York is to compare Social Democrats of America to Voyager traveling the Universe.

For each milestone of the journey, we need to reevaluate our direction given the variable. The American left is very predictable in their hatred of each other, and we use that predictability to plan our moves.

The calendar is what dictates ballot access and the fear of missing out gives the consultant class tremendous power.

Our goal is to replace the consultant class with activists donating a little bit of their time doing different tasks during the long empty journey, and once in a while, get together to execute the gravity assist.

Anyone does what they want to do, but at certain milestones, everyone must come together. If we don't, the ship will go somewhere else.

We explain in this documentary: https://pbs.org/show/county ...

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All quotes from: Wisconsin Democratic Chair Says He Is the One to Revive a Distressed Party - The New York Times

Ben Wikler, the Wisconsin Democratic chairman and a prolific party fund-raiser with deep connections in Washington, announced on Sunday that he was entering the race to lead the Democratic National Committee.

Mr. Wikler, 43, has led Wisconsin Democrats since 2019, and he has served as a top official at MoveOn, the progressive advocacy group. He said in an interview that he aimed to do for the national party what he did in Wisconsin, where he presided over the rebuilding of a party weakened by years of full Republican control of the state’s government.

Mr. Wikler, whose start in politics came in part as a research assistant for Al Franken, joins a field of party-chair hopefuls that includes Ken Martin, the Minnesota Democratic chairman; Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor; and James Skoufis, a little-known New York state senator. While Mr. Martin has said he has endorsements from 83 of the 448 voting members of the D.N.C. (and Mr. O’Malley has said he has endorsements from three, and Mr. Skoufis does not have any), Mr. Wikler would not say his level of support when asked.

And

Others considering entering the race include former Representative Max Rose of New York; Chuck Rocha, a strategist who worked on Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign in 2020; and Mallory McMorrow, a Michigan state legislator. Mr. Harrison has scheduled the meeting for the vote to replace him for Feb. 1 in Oxon Hill, Md.

I like Chuck Rocha, but AOC's endorsing US Senator Bernie Sanders after his heart attack in 2020 is what kept him in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary. And then when it was Biden vs. Sanders, the Sanders Campaign was clearly not aggressive enough with then-VPOTUS Joe Biden.

Heck, US Senator Bernie Sanders could have offered US Senator Elizabeth Warren Veep and promise to let her have enormous power over policy in a Sanders Administration. I would have preferred US Senator Sanders have AOC as Veep, but politics is politics.

Of the present seeming choices, unless Chuck Rocha would skew things in favor of AOC in 2028, it seems clear that Wisconsin Democratic Chairman Ben Wikler is the best choice for DNC Chair.

Why are you a better choice for D.N.C. chair than the others running?

The Democratic Party now is best served by leadership that’s been fighting on the front lines in one of the most contested states in the country and has demonstrated an ability to build an operation that has shattered expectations for what was possible.

The experience of fighting back in a state that Republicans had rigged to ensure total dominance and control, and unrigging that system so that you can build a functioning democracy is the kind of experience that we need now at a national level.

How much of this job do you see as internal rebuilding versus taking the fight to the movement that President-elect Donald J. Trump has inspired across the country?

There’s a communications challenge to support many more trusted messengers, to go to many more places, on Republican turf, and building a stronger progressive media ecosystem.

We have to be going to places where voters are hearing only about Democrats from Republicans. If voters hear about Democrats only from Republicans, then Democrats are going to lose.

I don’t think we have the luxury of choosing between internal rebuilding and daily organizing and communicating toe to toe with the G.O.P. We have to do both.

To finish, a policy question: You have said for years that abortion rights is the issue that best motivates Democratic voters and best convinces Republicans to vote for Democrats. Did something change about that in this election, or did the Harris campaign not focus enough on abortion rights?

It’s clear from this election that there are many voters, especially those hardest hit by rising prices, those who experienced the pandemic-era financial support slipping away, who voted primarily on the economy. We’ve seen in the United States and worldwide if you have to break pills in half to be able to afford your groceries, that is going to be the top-of-mind issue when you go to the ballot box*.*

Democrats win when voters know that we’re the ones fighting for them against those who will seek to rip them off to add an extra billion dollars to their bank account.

I mean, he's certainly my choice for DNC Chair.

It's been notable to me that the 'liberal' subReddits, the New York Times comments section, etc. that it seems Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters have gotten more progressive or at least been more supportive of progressives.

Even 2 years ago, AOC got a lot of hate from many 'liberals'. I was banned from some Democratic and/or 'liberal' subReddits seemingly from being too pro-AOC. Now those same subReddits seem to be more pro-AOC and more supportive of and hopeful about her future political than some of the progressive subReddits are. AOC now has the biggest and most followed account on Bluesky outside of the Bluesky account itself.

Progressives lost the 'fight' to get more progressive leadership in the US House Democratic Leadership and US Senate Democratic Leadership.

February 1, 2025 is not that far away. DNC Chair fight.

Then the 2026 Midterms.

Then the 2028 Elections.

https://couragetochangepac.org/ (AOC's PAC)

https://justicedemocrats.com/

Candidates - Justice Democrats

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https://youtu.be/m8nevwr0vyQ?si=TTRK_eM078Bz7oO9

This first video F.D Signifier, a youtuber who dives into race and sex and philosophy and politics and pop culture. He explains how the data of the election - at least as he's seen it - simply does not support either the idea that Harris was "too progressive" or the argument that she wasn'r progressive enough. She didn't run a very progressive campaign, but exit polls still showed that large majorities or pluralities of voters still associated her with very progressive ideas.

At the end of the day, he feels compelled to conclude that there's no other explanation that makes sense: the US is still a deeply racist and misogynist society, and those biases largely explain why Harris lost around 7M Biden voters.

But there's one more video:

https://youtu.be/EFnAJX4E9HE?si=kph2HuOQVT13bqKD

Bean Thinking is a newer channel, but the youtuber has been making videos for a while on another channel she has. She posits that there's a nuance here and we need to distinguish between being affected by racism, and being motivated by racism.

People largely didn't go vote for Trump specifically because they hate women and want to hurt Black and Brown people, even if that is the outcome they have likely made much more likely. They were motivated to vote for Trump instead because they are frustrated with the political and economic status quo, and Trump to them represents a change, Harris represents the establishment.

She even commented on Signifier's video to offer this perspective as a way of not outright disagreeing with his arguments, but hoping to frame them as more nuanced. While some people, like Trump, are in fact known to be racists themselves, many if not most of Trump's voters find him extremely unlikable, but they still naively believes Trump will dismantle things they ser as fundamentally broken. As she puts it: they were looking for a Revolution where no other way seemed possible.

These are worth watching in their entirety. It's about 45 minutes of total video, with the first taking up around 36min.

That’s all I’ve got. If this charade doesn’t outrage you, you have no sense of social justice, only a sense of team membership. That “Blue MAGA” epithet grows more resonant by the day.

There are a lot of barriers, but I've been thinking about this one specifically: there's a fear that socialism will take away the American dream. To many workers, that dream is not only "work hard and get ahead" (which neoliberal capitalism is destroying) but also, "I have a great business/product idea and under socialism I won't be able to do anything with it/acheive my dreams." It doesn't matter whether many American workers actually have an idea that is the next great innovation, it is the fear that if they do they won't be allowed to produce it and benefit from it. How do we get past that? I mean, if Tetris, the Rubix Cube, and the Soviet Space program can all be developed under Stalinism, isn't there a way to convince American workers that their good ideas are safe with Democratic Socialism?

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2024/12/02/aoc-for-prez-talk-begins-again-00192096

Source:

https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/robert-hunter-biden-convicted-three-felony-tax-offenses-and-six-misdemeanor-tax-offenses

I live in the U.S. and have recently been interested in learning more actual U.S. history since I don’t remember too much from my days in school and I’m sure it was highly biased to begin with, while completely missing many important moments as well.

I’m curious as socialists, what would be some helpful US history to dig into?

I’m open to time periods, moments, important figures, etc that I should dig into as well as specific book/podcast/documentary recommendations.

I feel like especially now, at least in America, the only real change anyone can do is local. What’s the best ways to get involved in a local manner? DSA? What even is “community organizing”? Like I wanna get involved and start making change and impacting community but in my head it’s seems as daunting as impacting the system.

Does anyone have solid advice to get involved in actual meaningful change on a local level? If nothing else just to feel a semblance of autonomy.

Update: I have RSVP'd for one of the DSA 101 Meetings in NYC in December so I'll be going to that. I'm going alone so I'm hoping people there are nice and welcoming! Anyways thank you for the advice!

From my experience talking with people about flaws of democracy, One that is most commonly brought up(even by the ancient greeks) is an average voter.

An average voter really votes for his own personal bias, most voters doesn't concern themselves with issues like climate change, corruption.

It's a fatal flaw of democracy but are there forms or different institutions of democracy where it is fixed?

Or how about vote of a literate individual who has done extensive research about parties vote must be weighed higher than an average voter?

When dealing with GOP bootlickers anywhere or those who fear socialism, usually these people tend to bring up Venezuela or other South American countries as an example of how socialism is bad. How can you make a good argument against it with the knowledge I know already? All I know so far about Venezuela is that after the president, Hugo Chavez took over the country only relied on one export for its economy, OIL! And thanks to some Western meddling IIRC the price of oil went down and everything went to shit. To the point where after Chavez passed away other leaders mismanaged the economy so badly that the crisis is ongoing.

There may be some details I'm missing so what can I add to what I already know?

Walz? Phil Murphy? Maura Healey?

What's keeping him and states from simply rounding up the unhomed and relocate them to the fields to replace them? He'd obviously call them unpatriotic and this is their last chance to show patriotism by working. The unhomed would obviously incur debt from the deal of food lodging and can be deducted from their "pay".