Posted on 09/21/2020 11:19:53 AM PDT by karpov
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic socialists brigade wants to turn New York City far-left — from the ground up.
The Democratic Socialists of America-NYC is pushing to put up or back a slate of City Council candidates who, if elected, would create a “socialist caucus.”
The overwhelmingly Democratic council is vulnerable next year to the left-of-left push with 35 out of 51 council seats up for grabs due to term limits. Only 16 council members can run for re-election.
The strategy is detailed in a 13-page “tasks and perspectives” strategic planning document that will be reviewed by DSA members this week.
A litmus test for candidates to obtain the DSA endorsement is a pledge to “defund” the NYPD — slashing the police budget by $3 billion or 50 percent.
“This campaign will be a key issue in the 2021 election cycle. NYC-DSA has already committed to making the call to defund [the NYPD] a central matter in its City Council endorsements and the socialist caucus it aims to build in advance of the 2022 budget,” the DSA steering committee plan says.
The DSA document complains that the already liberal council and mayor this year “merely moved [NYPD] money around” when they adopted the current budget following protests over the deaths of unarmed black men during interactions with police, including George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The savings from the police cuts could be used to prevent the layoffs of teachers, EMTs and firefighters or fund youth and social service programs to attack the root causes of crime, the DSA said.
DSA member AOC has become the face of the Democratic socialist movement in Congress and a national voice on the far left in American politics following her stunning victory over veteran Congressman Joe Crowley in 2018.
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Already have.
Yep.
It’s already a sewer pit.
Yes, they have. Pretty much taken the state too, at least state elected offices. Like California.
They won’t.
Take over New York city, then the state and do the same to California and cement Democrat rule forever.
One would think NYC voters would have had a sufficient taste of socialism under DeBlasio et al to reject this. If they don’t, we should just burn down the entire city and get it over with.
Deblobio is preparing the way by destroying business, promoting shootings, and training New Yorkers to be submissive sheep.
Gee, what could go wrong with a great plan like that....
It’s like watching that movie Willard come to life.
And from what I can read, it is working.
Haven’t New Yorkers suffered enough???
HA HA
Its like a reverse corporate raider who is arranging a hostile takeover of a bloated, debt-ridden, mismanaged and corrupt conglomerate which is rapidly losing customers and revenue
And proposing to do even more of the same.
Good luck to them!
Snake Pliskin is waiting in the wings
They still don’t realize that New Yorkers can leave.
What’s next, a border wall on the state line?
Shades of Ease Berlin?
H. L. Mencken
These people will get the govt they deserve, as always.
The root causes are drugs, dropping out of school, and having babies when you're young and unmarried. Good luck with the socialists "attacking" that.
What?
Isn’t De Blasio enough of a catastrophe for NYC?
With these folks it always feels like an insurrection..
Their points:
>>* Confront Gov. Andrew Cuomo and push the state Legislature to tax the rich to help fund the Green New Deal and New York Health Act, legislation that would create a government-run, single-payer health insurance system and to prevent state cuts in public services. “In the face of an austerity budget, many of our campaigns will lend their weight to a demand on the state government to tax the rich, putting us directly in the cross hairs of Andrew Cuomo. We welcome his hatred. Remaining resolute now is the time to expand the public sector, to provide social housing, public power [energy/utility supplier] …,”<<
IOW Stampede the rich and the makers/doers leaving only government and worker bees (seen “Metropolis” lately?)
>>Use the COVID-related housing crisis to “cancel” rent, thus squeezing landlords of revenue and forcing them to give up their properties and “exit the market” — and have the state acquire the properties and convert them to public housing. Its housing agenda also includes “undermining” the real estate industry’s already diminished clout in the Democrat-run state Legislature.<<
Tenements anyone? These will be hellholes worse than apartments with the name “Gardens” in them?
>>* DSA-backed candidates won five Democratic primaries for state legislative seats in June, with four of its insurgents ousting incumbents. The document says incumbents’ “fear of being primaried” should make them more “accountable” or amenable to backing DSA priorities.<<
Another rewind, this time to Tammany Hall
>>* Increase the DSA presence in three of the city’s largest public employee unions — District Council 37, the United Federation of Teachers and the NYS Nurses’ Association.<<
It is probably 100% already. But doing this will just make the NY medical support as bad as the worsening schools.
>>* Establish deeper ties to the city’s working-class, minority neighborhoods.<<
The one thing the “working class” hates to do is work. This will get you neighborhoods full of “community organizers” that do nothing and since you already will have priced out even medium intelligent workers you will have a working class of complete idiots, like aoc.
aoc does not understand any of this. She just knows she is famous and getting rich and would not have it any other way. She should have been primaried, but the idiots around her would not do the work.
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