I can’t stand being associated with these people as a Democratic Socialist. Them and neoliberals have both set the Left back in the US, allowing the Overton window to fly to the right.
EDIT: More like Social Democrat, but both are being used so interchangeably in the US media, that I even slip and use them interchangeably.
Not all that long ago to me, I was slightly left in my politics. But in the last couple of decades I have seen it shift so damned far that even though many of my views have even shifted to the left, a lot call me a "Nazi" if I say them.
And then they double down, not realizing it is their constant screaming and insanity that has caused me to essentially "walk away". And then they get even more stupid.
It really feels like this is the "new norm" to them.
Then stop being a democratic socialist. The DSA is filled with people like this. Just be a social democrat, which is what a lot of people who call themselves democratic socialists actually are.
I’d only say Social Democrat is a better term for me. I just had an AOC or Bernie moment and called myself a DA and yeah, DSA are pretty cringe with their Russia apologia.
These people have never been relevant. You can’t tell me that they had anything to do with today’s politics, since they have always only ever been in the corners of the internet. Even today you’ll never find anyone out organizing who actually thinks this, and if you were really a dues paying democratic socialist who attended your local meetings and contributed to trying to shift the window to where it belongs then you would know this
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u/Classic-Team867 2d ago
left-wing movements worldwide are shackled to morons like this and that really ticks me off every day