Posted on 07/30/2026 7:07:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are scheming to gut the Constitution and implement full-scale communism in the United States – and they’re not being shy about it.
From July 31 to August 2, the DSA will host a “Socialists Summit” in Chicago, which the organization’s event page describes as an opportunity “to learn through political education, skills training, organizer development, general programming, and social activities.” The summit will specifically center on the DSA’s latest policy platform, which amounts to a shocking attack on capitalism, private property, the U.S. Constitution, and the entire American system.
One section of the platform, titled “A Real Democracy,” calls for abolishing the Electoral College along with the Senate, presidency, and Supreme Court. It states plainly that the executive and judiciary should be “chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”
Another section, titled “A Democratic Congress,” goes even further, calling for the replacement of the two-party system with proportional representation, ranked-choice voting in all elections, and voting rights for “all permanent U.S. residents” – which includes illegal aliens, who will be given a “pathway to citizenship” under the DSA platform.
But the real kicker comes in a section titled “economic democracy,” in which the DSA demands “public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries to ensure democratic control and accountability to the people” – in other words, communism.
The DSA platform calls for extending voting rights to "all permanent U.S. residents," taxpayer-funded political campaigns, abolishing the Senate, and seizing ownership of private companies.
These proposals amount to a total rejection of the system of separation of of powers and checks and balances outlined in the Constitution. The framers built these important checks into the American system of government specifically to prevent any single branch from accumulating too much authority.
But the DSA’s radical platform doesn’t stop at scrapping the Constitution. It also calls for massive economic and social upheaval, including “universal rent control,” reparations for slavery, abolishing prisons and police, and ending “patriarchal restrictions on abortion, childbirth and childraising, and gender expression and transition.”
On foreign policy, the platform demands defunding the Department of War, closing overseas military bases, and ending U.S. economic sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran. It also calls for legalizing all mass migration and granting amnesty to immigrants regardless of legal status.
The DSA Platform on foreign policy calls for defunding the Department of War, prosecuting Israeli leaders, ending sanctions against terrorist regimes, and abolishing ICE.
The DSA’s National Political Committee adopted the platform this summer after a months-long drafting process, according to City Journal. The provision replacing the presidency and the Supreme Court passed the committee by a razor-thin margin, while a separate amendment on abolishing police and prisons passed 16 to 8.
Program co-author Michaela Brangan offered few details about what would replace the presidency during the launch webinar, according to the Washington Examiner. “We could call it the ‘head honcho’ or whatever,” she said, comparing the office to a prime minister rather than an elected president.
Socialist commentator Emma Vigeland, speaking on the same call, compared the abolition of the Senate to Britain’s removal of hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Britain, however, retained the Lords as an appointed upper chamber and remains a bicameral system.
Reading the DSA’s description of its vision for the future of America underscores just how detached from reality its members are. It asks readers to envision a “socialist day off.” Here’s what that looks like, according to the platform:
“You have no debt. You don’t need health insurance. You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.”
To anyone with a basic understanding of economics and the real world, that’s the stuff of childish fantasies. It might be laughable – if it weren’t becoming a mainstream position on the political left.
Five years ago, virtually no one had heard of the DSA. Now, it boasts more than 95,000 members, including the mayor of America’s largest city, Zohran Mamdani. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the highest-profile House Democrats and a potential 2028 presidential contender, has ties to the group, as does Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Meanwhile, DSA-backed primary candidates are winning Democrat primaries against candidates backed by the liberal establishment. At least three DSA picks, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez, and Melat Kiros, are on track to win U.S. House races in deep blue seats this fall. The DSA’s own news outlet, the Democratic Left, counts nearly 90 endorsed candidates running nationwide this cycle, including more than a dozen for Congress.
Inside the Democrat Party, formal resistance to this agenda has been minimal. Just 10 House Democrats and three candidates signed a “Promise to America” pledge in June, declaring, “We are capitalist, not socialist.” Set against a House Democrat caucus of more than 200 members, that amounts to a dismal level of support.
Carrying out the platform would require constitutional changes of extraordinary scope. The DSA itself calls for a new political system and a new constitution establishing a “democratic socialist republic.”
The DSA does not need current politicians in Washington to embrace its platform. It just needs to keep winning Democrat primaries and transforming the party into a vehicle to advance radical socialist-communist policies. Given that 59 percent of self-described Democrats view the DSA favorably, that strategy seems like an effective one.
As voters cast their ballots this fall, they should understand that a vote for Democrats is also a vote for the growing power of the DSA. Their radical platform remains a fringe position. But if current trends continue, it won’t be for long.
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I expect DSA to use violence against their opponents.
> I expect DSA to use violence against their opponents. <
Yep. These folks demonize anyone who disagrees with them.
So if you disagree with a “progressive” belief, you’re more than just wrong. You’re a filthy Nazi. And it’s okay to use violence against Nazis, right?
So if you disagree with a “progressive” belief, you’re more than just wrong. You’re a filthy Nazi. And it’s okay to use violence against Nazis, right?
And of course, if you saw Hitler, you would shoot him.
Import the third world and you’ll get third world politics…and the republicans fully supported this for decades.
No one should leave this summit against the Constitution except in a paddy wagon. This is not protected speech, assembly or anything else. It is seditious conspiracy being conducted in open.
This is the end result of turning education into indoctrination and the glamourizing of class envoy into social justice.
Only natural for college educated studies majors and high school graduates who cannot even name a single founding father or define the differences between a man and woman, to feel justified in their envy when they don’t get everything they want just for existing.
I thought I was “good” with ammo. Now, I’m stocking up again. We’re going to need it to save Americans from the African and Caribbeaner biatches.
The problem for them is there are more guns than people in this country, and most gun owners are not socialists.
We’ll shoot them back.
“abolishing prisons”
Where will you put the rapists?
Answer, as per the DSA:
“Efforts to prevent crimes with victims must be directed toward changing social conditions which foster criminality and empowering victims to resist victimization.”
IOW, using “restorative justice,” sending in social workers instead of police, getting at the “root of the problem” (White Supremacy, according to them) - programs such as “midnight basketball,” and the “right people” in charge - will stop criminality according to these idiots.
Yeah, it’s worked every time it’s been tried. Yet they wouldn’t hesitate to execute anyone who objects or gets in their way.
Re: 60+ million dead in the Old Soviet Union.
I know a guy who belonged to one of those 1980s black revolutionary groups.
His group talked about instigating a nationwide rebellion, with the goal of sweeping away the old order. After some discussion, they called it off. They weren’t afraid of the FBI or the National Guard.
They just couldn’t figure out how to handle the NRA.
(Yes, he referred to the NRA specifically.)
I am grateful for the second amendment.
And if you don't like the idea, you're a STINKING RACIEST.!! (sigh)
They need to be destroyed (politically of course...).
And the irony is that they are oblivious to history that the term "Nazi" referred to the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
And yet, they have become the National Socialist American Workers' Party hidden inside the Democrat Party like a virus.
-PJ
Communist Control Act - 1954
Have you noticed what happens to those who fight back against the mussies in the UK.? It's a a very scary situation... :(
> “Nazi” referred to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party <
Fun fact: During WW2, the Soviets referred to their Germany enemies as “fascists”, and never as “Nazis”.
Can’t be reminding everyone that the Nazis are fellow socialists!
To quote “Frankie Five Angels”’”Lets kill ‘em why we still have the muscle”.
In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the communists must make the common cause with the party which will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie and use it in the interests of the proletariat — that is, with the agrarian National Reformers. …Engels wrote The Principles of Communism way back in 1847. So this plan has been in place for at least 180 years or longer.
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