Posted on 07/11/2026 3:44:28 AM PDT by Libloather
How worried should Democrats be about the Democratic Socialists of America?
As someone who knows the DSA inside out, I can say with authority: They should be very worried indeed.
I was a DSA member for years and served in local leadership.
But today’s DSA — illiberal, dogmatic and hostile to traditional American political norms — is not the organization I once knew.
It includes disciplined, radicalized networks that have methodically expanded their power over the last decade in pursuit of extremist goals.
As the Democratic Party grapples with the DSA’s growing influence and extremism, it would do well to recognize that the same dynamic underway now — first accommodation, then capture, then surrender to insurgent radicals — already played out on a smaller scale within the DSA itself.
And there’s only one defense: out-organizing it.
For decades, the DSA was mostly composed of a cohort of aging Boomers, remnants from the group’s founding in 1982.
It prioritized open debate and political tolerance.
Following in the tradition of founder Michael Harrington, members viewed the DSA not as a revolutionary vanguard but as a reformist bridge to mainstream labor-liberalism; they prioritized parliamentary process and pluralism.
But in the mid-2010s, the character of the organization began to change.
I was in Boston at the time and witnessed the last days of the “old” DSA.
New, younger members began to enter the organization as Sen. Bernie Sanders and the socialist magazine Jacobin grew their followings.
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In today’s DSA, there are quite a few Yezhovs, Yagodas and Berias. They are ready to carry out the wishes of the new Stalin.
Just like Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks.
History doesn’t repeat, but it sure does rhyme.
Here’s their party platform, according to Fox News, Gateway Pundit and RedWave Press:
1. Eliminate the U.S. Senate.
2. Replace the President with an executive chosen by Congress.
3. Replace the Supreme Court with a judiciary subordinate to Congress.
4. Grant universal amnesty to all illegal aliens.
5. Defund the Department of Defense (which the platform refers to as the “Department of War”).
6. Close overseas U.S. military bases.
7. End American economic sanctions against foreign adversaries.
8. Abolish what it calls the “carceral forces of the capitalist state,” including sweeping police and prison reforms.
Russia and China would just love that. This cancer has to be irradicated here and soon. It took Venezuela less than 10 years to become a third world outhouse.
Absolute insanity. All of it. This is a cookbook on how to destroy the USA.
1. Eliminate the U.S. Senate.
2. Replace the President with an executive chosen by Congress.
3. Replace the Supreme Court with a judiciary subordinate to Congress.
IOW, a democratic despotism of zero institutional checks. James Madison specifically warned of this.
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