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Link so y’all don’t call me a lib again.
They also like V*ush. Think “eat the rich” is a metaphor for taxation. And say Tankies turned them from Anarcho-Communist to a Neoliberal. Think the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact meant the Soviet Union was fascist. Like, okay, how fucking twisted do your priorities have to be that you dunk on a state that hasn’t existed for 30 fucking years instead of, you know, your own state that is currently involved in who know how many fascist conspiracies. And that’s it. I’m not going any deeper into their timeline. I’m too tired.
Yes, a ton. Obviously we don’t have a mass movement yet, but there are almost 100,000 DSA members now (and the DSA itself gives Bernie a lot of credit for that) and probably two or three times that many people who are to the left of Bernie but unaffiliated (or affiliated with a different org). And they’re not just members as a bit – the DSA has actually put people in federal, state, and local offices. There’s something we can work with there, and it’s growing.
my local one has 3000 or so members, but their active membership is only around 2-3% of that (60-100 people attend general meetings and/or working groups)
This is good to be mindful of, but it sounds pretty typical of political organizations (it might even be more engagement than most political organizations see). Consider how many Democrats are in your city/county compared to how many show up to any sort of Democratic Party meeting.
