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Local governments?
COVID happened, everyone went inside and never came back out.
They/we were all comfortable middle/working class people people who turned back to Netflix when it became apparent any accomplishment would require sacrificing said comfort.
Covid
bernie was destroyed. he clearly doesn’t have another presidential campaign in him. the party said :bugs-no:. he bent the knee. let the poor guy rest.
at the less spectacular level of local politics, a bunch of DSA branches are involved with campaigns for demsoc candidates. turns out politics is actually hard, whether it’s elections, labor organizing, mutual aid, terrorism, whatever, it really does amount to slow boring of hard boards.
Buffalo, NY literally elected a socialist as the Democratic nominee for mayor last year. In a district where the Republican never wins and the Democrat always wins the mayoral race. After that, Buffalo considered abolishing the position of mayor. That didn’t happen, but what did happen is that the establishment stooge who lost the primary decided to run as an independent in the general, got millions upon millions in funding from corporate donors, got the full support of the Democratic party, and ran a huge propaganda campaign against the socialist insurgent. The socialist lost. Propaganda works! Especially when the media is created, controlled, and funded by capitalists.
So, people can be excused for being a little bit hopeless for democratic socialism in America.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/11/buffalo-new-york-india-walton-mayoral-election-byron-brown
