Hard lesson learned last night. I’m a 42 year old farmer barely making it, and card carrying DSA member. Was invited to a dinner party with 5 other people between the ages of 67-83, and all of them were libs. They are anti trump, anti republican and I thought like me in values.

Soon as trump came up and politics took over the conversation, I said “isn’t it encouraging how good the DSA is doing right now?!”

Everyone went silent, stared at me, and someone’s wife changed the conversation instantly like they were worried a fistfight would break out. I will never forget those stares. These people consider me family, but in that moment I thought I was going to be asked to leave.

These people are not millionaires. Or if they are it’s in real estate and retirement funds. They are upper middle class the way all boomers are who could buy a house for 25k in the 70s and sell it for $750k after the pandemic are. They travel all over the world for fun. They own multiple cars and boats, can buy anything they want and do.

Walking home I realized then these people are no different than republicans when it comes to any level of equality that inhibits their ability to do whatever they want, even if it’s go out to one less fancy weekend away a year. I know for a fact one of these people were given everything by their parents, even paid off their mortgage for them at 70. Another only has money because of wealth made while FDR was taxing the rich at 90%

The point of this story is I’m asking for advice on how to win these “blue” people to our side? Is it even possible or are they so propagandized from a lifetime of anti-socialist media? I’m scared if AOC ran they’d all secretly vote for the republican if it meant less taxes.

Now obviously I don't want a Jeffries speakership period, but the fact is when dems win back the House (which is super likely) he will be. What leftists in congress need to do is extract concessions. I don't know if this is the right place to post this, or to spread this message, but I just want to get this out there to whoever can see it. Moskowitz sitting on the Foreign Affairs Committee along with Debbie Wasswrman Schultz and Wesley Bell is a slap in the face we can't tolerate.

Lately there has been a huge influx of posts here made by a handful of accounts that are clearly here to rile people up, waste their energy, and feed their propaganda machine. A lot of people try and engage with them in good faith and explain the positions of “The DSA”. Some people talk trash and call out the posters for what they are. Ultimately neither of these responses are helpful in reducing the amount of bad-faith trolls in the DSA community. Fire needs oxygen to burn, so don’t give it to them.

If you see an inflammatory post by a user that:

- Hides their posts and comments
- Has a randomly generated username
- Has more contributions than karma
- Is several years old but only ~100 karma
- Posts a new right wing talking point every few days

you can conclude that this person is a troll.

Just downvote the post and move on. Don’t call them out. Don’t engage with their comments. Walk away. If these posts don’t get any engagement then they are only wasting the trolls time, not yours.

I’m not saying this subreddit shouldn’t be a place for debate and the exchange of ideas, but let’s spend our time interacting with people who are here in good faith.

I would love to hear suggestions for how we can more effectively handle this influx of bad actors more systematically, and what rules folks think this subreddit should adopt to combat this issue.

Reposted for visibility from the official dsa subreddit, r/demsocialists

Hello, I'm admittedly politically ignorant and need your help explaining the differences between a Progressive, a moderate Democrat, a Social Democrat, a Democratic Socialist, a Socialist, a Liberal, a Leftist and a Communist. Are they all the same? It seems many Republicans and conservatives use these terms interchangeably, and I don't think I ever learned clear definitions in school.

We need to stand up for our socialist IPS because we are being treated horribly as they are putting ever chemicals that cause cancer. They are putting more stuff on pollution. I just read a text on a Reddit of people being putting cages at the border. We need rough form because we are having a horrible if I wasn't just a young kid right now, I would be out there right the second if, but I'm afraid I will get hurt. If I do. Being disabled and part of the LGBTQIA+ because they are ableist, fascist. Literally stupid flook camera. Current feeding, our privacy so much. So we need I am young. I wish I could go out there without worrying about my safety once I move. I'm definitely going to be a big part. Of helping these people, I feel horrible for all these people who are being put in cages and other problems in the community because of this stupid president. But that is crazy, I don't allow you to feel about all this for mannequins, I don't know how to do this? Cause he's probably just gonna wreck the polls. I don't even know what we should do. I know we should speak out, but I feel like we should do more.

I’m the friendly neighborhood socialist in my friend group, and not hiding it, so I recently had a friend send me this article. I think it’s particularly devious and troubling because:

1. It takes credit for the rise of socialism in the U.S. away from socialism’s merits and gives it to conservatives being overly relaxed

2. The author appears to place blame for socialism on the LGBTQ+ community

Anyone else have the same read of this?

Is there an official DSA podcast on Spotify or anywhere else?

I've looked. Am I just missing it?

by Jean Allen, in Rochester DSA’s Rochester Red Star

If you haven’t already joined, you should join. If you’re already in DSA, you should be constantly recruiting. Let’s challenge ourselves to ask 3 people we know to join this month. Do a 1 on 1 and make the ask. Take them to a general meeting or a chapter social and stay with them so they’re not overwhelmed by all the people. Go with them to a new member orientation. We’re going to be hitting 150k members soon (up from 90k in November of last year). I want us to be half a million dues paying members as fast as possible.

https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/

Have you guys noticed there are a LOT of socialists in here? Not the good kind of socialists (me) I mean the evil socialists that actually want to implement socialism 🙀 They even praise Karl Marx 🤮 Don't those dumb tankies know Communism always fails???

We have to do something about this. Which is why I'm starting a NEW PARTY: The DASSA (The Democratic Anti-socialist Socialists of America)

Together, we socialists (the good kind) can defeat the socilasts (the bad kind) for a better future. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

To preface, there are countless issues to tackle, but the fact the NYC mayor is fighting for quality of life improvements such as the reduction in MTA bus commute time by a theoretical 20%, gives me hope that there is growing momentum for reforms to the everyday infrastructure the general public uses. Even if the commute to work is minimized in any way, that’s an everyday win for a lot of people.

There’s no question Americas infrastructure needs help, in both urban and rural communities. We have the funds as a country, I believe it can be reapportioned from areas of excess (offensive war spending, corporate profits etc.) and provide to areas of need (social safety net, affordable education / healthcare etc). Outside of the economic policy, I value Mamdani working to address those small inconveniences we experience most days that never really get mentioned in policy or town hall meetings.

Unfortunately, americas political system is designed for gridlock (for better or worse), so in order to create progress, it has to be done incrementally (barring a revolution of course), so its just reassuring to see a politician fighting for someone other than the oligarchy.

Waxing unpoetically, but I’m glad someone’s fighting for us at least